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a modern prayer

Our Dear OneWho exists in all Dimensions

Sacred be Your Nameand Sacred be our Awarenessof Your Wonderful Presence

May a time comewith fairness and kindness for allhere on Your small Earthas You have shown us in the lives and actionsof Your Prophets, Poets, and Saints

May all death and destructioncome from You and only from You

For death and destruction by the causes and chanceof the natural world and of our own natural selvesis sacred and a part of our existence in You

But planned death and destruction of humans by humansdestroys our common spirit and moves us away from Youand all we are meant to be

Give us on this daythe sustenance and care we need to thrive

Forgive us this dayour selfishness and our greedand forgive us our willful unintelligenceand our failure to notice the truthwhich always surrounds us

Teach us to see and to forgive ourselvesand in doing so, to be able to see and to forgiveall others

Forgive us our debts and our wasted timeas we forgive the debts and the wasted time of others

Help us not be self absorbedand blind to the needs of others

But deliver us from hate, from angerand from indifference

Help us always see the Other as YouAs our own Hearts and SoulsAs Divine in your Creation

Oh wonderful Onemay our thoughts and our actionscreate Peace and Justice

And may the Light we sharealways lead us to Kindness

Forever and forever

Amen