Opening Prayer
O Breathing Life, your Name shines everywhere!
Release a space to plant your Presence here.
Envision your potential now.
Embody your desire in every light and form.
Grow through us this moment's bread and wisdom.
Untie the knots of failure binding us,
as we release the strands we hold of others' faults.
Help us not forget our Source,
Yet free us from not being in the Present.
From you arises every Vision, Power and Song
from gathering to gathering.
May our future actions grow from here!
Amen
the lord's prayer - from the original Aramaic
“We begin by coming here, to this moment.”
Jack Kornfield
Have you ever gone to a stream and tried to grasp a bubble in the water with the hope of holding into it?.
Goldstein and Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Empower
me to be a bold participant,
rather than a timid saint in waiting,
in the difficult ordinariness of now,
to exercise the authority of honesty,
rather than to defer to power,
or deceive to get it;
to influence someone for justice,
rather than impress someone for gain;
and by grace, to find treasures
of joy, of friendship, of peace,
hidden in the fields of the daily
you give me to plow.
Ted Loder
As it was in the beginning is now,
and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen
Christian traditional
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