3/1/08
Divine MysteryDeliver me to my passion.Deliver me to my brilliance.Deliver me to my intelligence.Deliver me to my depth.Deliver me to my nobility.Deliver me to my beauty.Deliver me to my power to heal.Deliver me to You.
Amen
“People who lead exciting [or passionate] lives don’t know who got voted off the island, or know who got fired by the Donald.” … [Passion] in our life doesn’t happen TO us --- it can only happen THROUGH us. Life is meant to be lived, and it is best lived when it is lived passionately. The sooner we realize this, the more likely we are to start creating a little bit of excitement in the world around us. Doesn’t that sound like fun?
People who have changed the world have never been boring or timid people. They have always been willing to rock the boat, or even to capsize it, in order to get the attention of the world around them. Of course, this can
be very upsetting to those people who spend their lives just trying to keep everything on an even keel. It’s uncomfortable for some of us when someone comes in with a new idea that will change everything, and they just won’t
go away or be quiet.
Rev. Paul Gonyea
Fly Your Freak Flag High!
Soul of our souls, Spirit of our spirits,And the One embracing All,Divine One, of infinite names and none:Powers of East, South, West and North,And all who weave the Universe:I call to you, within and without -This night, this rite.
Divine Air - bring imagination and creativity to the world.Like the far-seeing hawk,May we see this situation as the whole complex tapestry that it is,And be in-spired with fresh and virgin weavings.Like the unfettered winds,May we be freed from old assumptions and patterns in how we respond,And breath in new possibilities.
Divine Fire - bring clarity and compassionate passion to the world.Like the bright light of the Sun,May we see clearly the way-forward of "what is necessary" for all life,And the time to come.Like the transforming flames,May our grief, fear and rage be transformed into compassion for all -All victims and perpetrators alike.
Divine Water - bring yielding and wisdom to the world.Like the gentle erosion of water upon stone,May we release our personal and cultural biases,And acknowledge the 'wrong-thinkings' that we may harbour.Like the deepening twilight upon the earth,May we remember the lessons of the past,And contemplate their meaning for the future.
Divine Earth - bring greening and surety to the world.Like the stretching branches of the tree,May we stretch ourselvesInto the life-affirming paths of reconciliation and healing.Like the deep peaceful dome of night,May we stand firm in the Goddess and the God,Through this 'dark night' of confusion and fear, and false 'stars'.
May our souls be strong, steady and revealing.May our spirits be en-lightened, faithful and sure.May our choices be wise and enduring, for the generations to come.
By all that is Sacred and True,So Mote It Be.
pashta marymoon -
The prophet Mohammed understood:
What actions are
most excellent?
To gladden the heart
of a human being.
To feed the hungry.
To help the afflicted.
To lighten the sorrow
of the sorrowful.
To remove the wrongs
of the injured.
That person is the
most beloved of God
who does most good
to God’s creatures. (Roberts, 109)
Make of your life an offering
Make of your life a prayer
…to be awake to the life that is loving you
and sing your prayer,
laugh your prayer,
dance your prayer,
run and weep your prayer
Oh God give me strength to be victorious over myself,
for nothing may chain me to this life.
O guide my spirit.
O raise me from these dark depths,
that my soul, transported through your wisdom my fearlessly struggle upward in fiery flight.
For You alone understand and can inspire me.
Ludwig von Beethoven (when he realized his deafness was incurable)
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, Deliver us.
Modern prayer from Kenya
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
February theme LOVE
2/17/08
Divine One, may we love all of your creation,
all of the earth and every grain of sand in it.
May we love every leaf, every ray of your light.
For we acknowledge to you that all is like an ocean,
all is flowing and blending, and that
to withhold any measure of love from anything in your universe is to withhold that same measure from you.
Doystoyevsky
"We are put on earth for a little spacethat we may learn to bear the beams of love"--William Blake
On the way to God the difficulties
Feel like being ground by a millstone.
Like night coming at noon. like
Lightening through the clouds.
But don’t worry!
What must come, comes.
Face Everything with Love,
As your mind dissolves in God
Lal Ded 13th cen. Kashmir
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry'
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation on our own isolated meditation. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love. And if this love is unreal, the secret will not be found, the meaning will never reveal itself, the message will never be decoded. At best we will receive a scrambled message, one that will deceive and confuse us. We will never be fully real until we let ourselves fall in love – either with another human or with God.
Thomas Merton
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6
Love affects more than our thinking and our behavior toward those we love. It transforms our entire life. Genuine love is a personal revolution. Love takes your ideas, your desires, and your actions and welds them together in one experience and one living reality which is a new you. You may prefer to keep this from happening. You may keep your thoughts, desires, and acts in separate compartments if you want: but you will be an artificial and divided person. Our philosophy of life is not something we create all by ourselves out of nothing.
Thomas Merton
When you stand outside my thatched hut,
Could you guess how spacious it is inside?
There is a galaxy of worlds in here.
And space for as much love as I can find.
Ishikawa Jozan 17th cen. Japan
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' Noelle - age 7
Blessed are they who givewithout expecting even thanks in return,for they shall be abundantly rewarded.Blessed are they who translateevery good thing they know into action,for ever higher truths shall be revealed unto them.Blessed are they who do God's willwithout asking to see results,for great shall be their recompense.Blessed are they who love and trust their fellow beings,for they shall reach the good in people andreceive a loving response.Blessed are they who have seen reality, for they knowthat not the garment of clay but that which activatesthe garment of clay is real and indestructible.Blessed are they who see the change we call deathas a liberation from the limitation of this earth-life,for they shall rejoice with their loved oneswho make the glorious transition.Blessed are they who after dedicating their livesand thereby receiving a blessing, have the courage and faithto surmount the difficulties of the path ahead,for they shall receive a second blessing.Blessed are they who advance toward the spiritual pathwithout the selfish motive of seeking inner peace,for they shall find it.Blessed are they who instead of trying tobatter down the gates of the kingdom of heavenapproach them humbly and lovingly and purified,for they shall pass right through.
Peace Pilgrim's Beatitudes - Mildred Norman
Through love bitter things taste sweet.
Through love pains become as healing balms.
Through love thorns turn into roses.
Through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.
Through love hard stones turn soft like butter.
Through love soft wax becomes hard iron.
Through love grief has the flavor of joy.
Through love stings are like honey.
Through love lions are harmless as mice.
Through love sickness is health.
Through love the dead come to life.
Through love the king is humble as a slave.
Jalil al-Din Rumi 13th cen. Persia
Light comes through a gap in the curtains:
the promise of morning.
Light comes through the flaws of our lives:
the promise of love.
Modern prayer from Germany
Divine One, may we love all of your creation,
all of the earth and every grain of sand in it.
May we love every leaf, every ray of your light.
For we acknowledge to you that all is like an ocean,
all is flowing and blending, and that
to withhold any measure of love from anything in your universe is to withhold that same measure from you.
Doystoyevsky
"We are put on earth for a little spacethat we may learn to bear the beams of love"--William Blake
On the way to God the difficulties
Feel like being ground by a millstone.
Like night coming at noon. like
Lightening through the clouds.
But don’t worry!
What must come, comes.
Face Everything with Love,
As your mind dissolves in God
Lal Ded 13th cen. Kashmir
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry'
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation on our own isolated meditation. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love. And if this love is unreal, the secret will not be found, the meaning will never reveal itself, the message will never be decoded. At best we will receive a scrambled message, one that will deceive and confuse us. We will never be fully real until we let ourselves fall in love – either with another human or with God.
Thomas Merton
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6
Love affects more than our thinking and our behavior toward those we love. It transforms our entire life. Genuine love is a personal revolution. Love takes your ideas, your desires, and your actions and welds them together in one experience and one living reality which is a new you. You may prefer to keep this from happening. You may keep your thoughts, desires, and acts in separate compartments if you want: but you will be an artificial and divided person. Our philosophy of life is not something we create all by ourselves out of nothing.
Thomas Merton
When you stand outside my thatched hut,
Could you guess how spacious it is inside?
There is a galaxy of worlds in here.
And space for as much love as I can find.
Ishikawa Jozan 17th cen. Japan
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' Noelle - age 7
Blessed are they who givewithout expecting even thanks in return,for they shall be abundantly rewarded.Blessed are they who translateevery good thing they know into action,for ever higher truths shall be revealed unto them.Blessed are they who do God's willwithout asking to see results,for great shall be their recompense.Blessed are they who love and trust their fellow beings,for they shall reach the good in people andreceive a loving response.Blessed are they who have seen reality, for they knowthat not the garment of clay but that which activatesthe garment of clay is real and indestructible.Blessed are they who see the change we call deathas a liberation from the limitation of this earth-life,for they shall rejoice with their loved oneswho make the glorious transition.Blessed are they who after dedicating their livesand thereby receiving a blessing, have the courage and faithto surmount the difficulties of the path ahead,for they shall receive a second blessing.Blessed are they who advance toward the spiritual pathwithout the selfish motive of seeking inner peace,for they shall find it.Blessed are they who instead of trying tobatter down the gates of the kingdom of heavenapproach them humbly and lovingly and purified,for they shall pass right through.
Peace Pilgrim's Beatitudes - Mildred Norman
Through love bitter things taste sweet.
Through love pains become as healing balms.
Through love thorns turn into roses.
Through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.
Through love hard stones turn soft like butter.
Through love soft wax becomes hard iron.
Through love grief has the flavor of joy.
Through love stings are like honey.
Through love lions are harmless as mice.
Through love sickness is health.
Through love the dead come to life.
Through love the king is humble as a slave.
Jalil al-Din Rumi 13th cen. Persia
Light comes through a gap in the curtains:
the promise of morning.
Light comes through the flaws of our lives:
the promise of love.
Modern prayer from Germany
Feb theme: LOVE
Feb 10
Living Spirits of the Earth
Mother and Father of us All
You who hold us in Your breath
You who bathe us in Your waters
You who feed us with Your fruits
Guardian of where we are going,
of who we are becoming
Cradle our days
and coffin our nights
You who carry us folded in Your arms
Sailing silently among the stars
Hear our Prayers
Amen.
The Terma Collective
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.' Mary Ann - age 4
I am Love.
I reflect the great givingness of God.
I am the awareness of divine generosity flowing forth
to everyone and everything everywhere.
I express the abundance of God bursting forth unreservedly
in my life and in everyone and everything.
adapted from C.A. Anderson & Deborah Whitehouse: New Thought
What is “the good news”? That true life, eternal life, has been found – it is not something promised, it is already here, it is withihn you; as life lived in love, in love without subtraction or exclusion, without distance. Everyone is the child of God – Jesus definitely claims nothing for himself alone – and as a child of God everyone is equal to everyone else.
Fredrich Nietzche
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."Author Unknown (from Bob Gould in the Yahoo Club: Admirers of HH the Dalai Lama)
Effortlessly,
Love flows from God into man,
Like a bird who rivers the air
Without moving her wings.
Thus we move in his world
One in body and soul,
Though outwardly separate in form,
As the source strikes the note,
Humanity sings –
The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all strings
Which are touched in Love
Must sound.
Mechtild von Magdeburg 13th cen.?
The Heart has its own Way. The mystical Heart belongs to God alone, it does not adhere to any creed, religion or sect. It transcends reason, even divine reason, and it stands untouched by mortal mind. . . .
Because divine love is so purified, so much of itself, it is the strongest weapon and the greatest force, stronger still than any physical prowess. It is the Light that pervades consciousness and germinates new life.The strength of the Heart is found in your flexibility, in your unconditional love. This is your strength. Your resistance or fear is not strength, but weakness. Strength is in flexibility because nothing can touch that which is holy, pure and giving. Why? Because that which is holy is never fixed; it never stops. Resistance can always be countered, because it is defined; it is determined. But what is flexible and unconditional can never be ultimately damaged. This is the truth of ultimate reality.The Heart is very quiet. It is non-aggressive. It is silent. It is gentle. It is subtle. You can not hear its gentleness in the midst of the harsh or negative language that constantly bombards you. When you are able to truly listen to the Heart, you are then incapable of violence to your self or to another. The Way of the Heart requires commitment and courage—it requires an openness to question and to receive challenges to the time-honored “truth”—because the heart answers to no one but God alone.
Beverly Lanzetta
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' Karen - age 7
Healing Silence
You carry the cure within you.
Everything that comes your way is blessed.
The creator gives you one more day.
Stand on the neck of Fearful Mind.
Do not wait to open your heart.
Let yourself go into the mystery.
Sometimes the threads have no weave.
The price of not loving yourself is high.
Living Spirits of the Earth
Mother and Father of us All
You who hold us in Your breath
You who bathe us in Your waters
You who feed us with Your fruits
Guardian of where we are going,
of who we are becoming
Cradle our days
and coffin our nights
You who carry us folded in Your arms
Sailing silently among the stars
Hear our Prayers
Amen.
The Terma Collective
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.' Mary Ann - age 4
I am Love.
I reflect the great givingness of God.
I am the awareness of divine generosity flowing forth
to everyone and everything everywhere.
I express the abundance of God bursting forth unreservedly
in my life and in everyone and everything.
adapted from C.A. Anderson & Deborah Whitehouse: New Thought
What is “the good news”? That true life, eternal life, has been found – it is not something promised, it is already here, it is withihn you; as life lived in love, in love without subtraction or exclusion, without distance. Everyone is the child of God – Jesus definitely claims nothing for himself alone – and as a child of God everyone is equal to everyone else.
Fredrich Nietzche
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."Author Unknown (from Bob Gould in the Yahoo Club: Admirers of HH the Dalai Lama)
Effortlessly,
Love flows from God into man,
Like a bird who rivers the air
Without moving her wings.
Thus we move in his world
One in body and soul,
Though outwardly separate in form,
As the source strikes the note,
Humanity sings –
The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all strings
Which are touched in Love
Must sound.
Mechtild von Magdeburg 13th cen.?
The Heart has its own Way. The mystical Heart belongs to God alone, it does not adhere to any creed, religion or sect. It transcends reason, even divine reason, and it stands untouched by mortal mind. . . .
Because divine love is so purified, so much of itself, it is the strongest weapon and the greatest force, stronger still than any physical prowess. It is the Light that pervades consciousness and germinates new life.The strength of the Heart is found in your flexibility, in your unconditional love. This is your strength. Your resistance or fear is not strength, but weakness. Strength is in flexibility because nothing can touch that which is holy, pure and giving. Why? Because that which is holy is never fixed; it never stops. Resistance can always be countered, because it is defined; it is determined. But what is flexible and unconditional can never be ultimately damaged. This is the truth of ultimate reality.The Heart is very quiet. It is non-aggressive. It is silent. It is gentle. It is subtle. You can not hear its gentleness in the midst of the harsh or negative language that constantly bombards you. When you are able to truly listen to the Heart, you are then incapable of violence to your self or to another. The Way of the Heart requires commitment and courage—it requires an openness to question and to receive challenges to the time-honored “truth”—because the heart answers to no one but God alone.
Beverly Lanzetta
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' Karen - age 7
Healing Silence
You carry the cure within you.
Everything that comes your way is blessed.
The creator gives you one more day.
Stand on the neck of Fearful Mind.
Do not wait to open your heart.
Let yourself go into the mystery.
Sometimes the threads have no weave.
The price of not loving yourself is high.
Feb theme: LOVE
Feburary 3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
God is Love. John 4:8
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6
The word in language is half someone else’s … Prior to th[e] moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions [and stories]: It is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own. Bakhtin
'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy - age 4
Love is the perfect stillness
and the greatest excitement, and most profound act,
and the world is almost as complete as His Name.
Rabia - 8th cen Sufi Mystic
She Who Loved Too Much – the Gospel according to Dawn
Dawn Annette Mills, OSB
I
have a cause
We need those, don’t we?
Otherwise the darkness and the cold gets in
and everything starts
to ache.
My soul has a purpose; it is
to love;
if I
do not fulfill
my heart’s vocatiion,
I suffer.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The sky gave me its heart
because it knew mine was not large enough to care for the earth
the way
it did.
Why is it we think of God so much?
Why is there so much talk
about love?
When an animal is wounded
no one has to tell it, “you need to heal”; so naturally it will nurse
itself the best it can.
My eyes keep telling me, “Something is missing from
all I see.” So I went in search of the cure.
The cure for me was His beauty, the remedy –
for me was to
love.
Rabia – 8th cen Sufi Mystic
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
God is Love. John 4:8
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6
The word in language is half someone else’s … Prior to th[e] moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions [and stories]: It is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own. Bakhtin
'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy - age 4
Love is the perfect stillness
and the greatest excitement, and most profound act,
and the world is almost as complete as His Name.
Rabia - 8th cen Sufi Mystic
She Who Loved Too Much – the Gospel according to Dawn
Dawn Annette Mills, OSB
I
have a cause
We need those, don’t we?
Otherwise the darkness and the cold gets in
and everything starts
to ache.
My soul has a purpose; it is
to love;
if I
do not fulfill
my heart’s vocatiion,
I suffer.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The sky gave me its heart
because it knew mine was not large enough to care for the earth
the way
it did.
Why is it we think of God so much?
Why is there so much talk
about love?
When an animal is wounded
no one has to tell it, “you need to heal”; so naturally it will nurse
itself the best it can.
My eyes keep telling me, “Something is missing from
all I see.” So I went in search of the cure.
The cure for me was His beauty, the remedy –
for me was to
love.
Rabia – 8th cen Sufi Mystic
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Ahimsa, January 27, 2008
1-27-08
I am, O my God,but a tiny seed which you have sownin the soil of Your love,and caused to spring forth by the hand of Your bounty.This seed craves, therefore,in its inmost being,for the waters of Your mercyand the living fountain of Your grace.Send down upon it,from the heaven of Your loving-kindness,that which will enable it to flourish beneath Your shadowand within the borders of Your court.Thou art That Who waters the hearts of all from Your plenteous streamand the fountain of Your living waters.Praised be to God,the Lord of the worlds.
baha'i prayers - bahá'u'lláh
Martin Luther King
Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 November 1957.
How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
…
And this is what Jesus means when he said: "How is it that you see the splinter in your brother’s eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?" And this is one of the tragedies of human nature. So we begin to love our enemies and love those persons that hate us whether in collective life or individual life by looking at ourselves.
A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and every time you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.
I’ve said to you on many occasions that each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality. We’re split up and divided against ourselves. And there is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life. There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Ovid, the Latin poet, and the Apostle Paul, "I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do."
There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Plato that the human personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Goethe, "There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue."
That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of what he does, you see God’s image there. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time, which you must not do it. There will come a time when the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, "Love your enemy." And it’s significant that he does not say, "Like your enemy." Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.
[And now] to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil.
… Somewhere somebody must have some sense. We must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe and inject within the very structure of the universe, that strong and powerful element of love.
There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. … For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
. . . You want to be integrated with yourself, and the way to be integrated with yourself is be sure that you meet every situation of life with an abounding love… [Jesus] looked at men and said: "Love your enemies; don’t hate anybody." It’s not enough for us just not to hate your friends because—because when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That’s why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they’re mistreating you. Here’s the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don’t do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they’re mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
STORY of PRAHLAD
STORY of OMAR OSAMA BIN LADEN
Please call me by my true names
Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,and I am the bird which,
when spring comes, arrives in time to eat the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond, and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks, and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my people,dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
image of Godborn of God's breathvessel of divine Love after his likeness dwelling of Godcapacity for the infinite eternally known chosen of God home of the Infinite Majesty abiding in the Son called from eternity life in the Lord temple of the Holy Spirit branch of Christ receptacle of the Most High wellspring of Living Water heir of the kingdom the glory of Godabode of the Trinity.God sings this litany eternally in his Word. This is who you are.
a litany of the person –
anonymous trappist monk
I am, O my God,but a tiny seed which you have sownin the soil of Your love,and caused to spring forth by the hand of Your bounty.This seed craves, therefore,in its inmost being,for the waters of Your mercyand the living fountain of Your grace.Send down upon it,from the heaven of Your loving-kindness,that which will enable it to flourish beneath Your shadowand within the borders of Your court.Thou art That Who waters the hearts of all from Your plenteous streamand the fountain of Your living waters.Praised be to God,the Lord of the worlds.
baha'i prayers - bahá'u'lláh
Martin Luther King
Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 November 1957.
How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
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And this is what Jesus means when he said: "How is it that you see the splinter in your brother’s eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?" And this is one of the tragedies of human nature. So we begin to love our enemies and love those persons that hate us whether in collective life or individual life by looking at ourselves.
A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and every time you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.
I’ve said to you on many occasions that each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality. We’re split up and divided against ourselves. And there is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life. There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Ovid, the Latin poet, and the Apostle Paul, "I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do."
There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Plato that the human personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Goethe, "There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue."
That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of what he does, you see God’s image there. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time, which you must not do it. There will come a time when the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, "Love your enemy." And it’s significant that he does not say, "Like your enemy." Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.
[And now] to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil.
… Somewhere somebody must have some sense. We must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe and inject within the very structure of the universe, that strong and powerful element of love.
There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. … For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
. . . You want to be integrated with yourself, and the way to be integrated with yourself is be sure that you meet every situation of life with an abounding love… [Jesus] looked at men and said: "Love your enemies; don’t hate anybody." It’s not enough for us just not to hate your friends because—because when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That’s why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they’re mistreating you. Here’s the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don’t do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they’re mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
STORY of PRAHLAD
STORY of OMAR OSAMA BIN LADEN
Please call me by my true names
Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,and I am the bird which,
when spring comes, arrives in time to eat the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond, and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks, and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my people,dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
image of Godborn of God's breathvessel of divine Love after his likeness dwelling of Godcapacity for the infinite eternally known chosen of God home of the Infinite Majesty abiding in the Son called from eternity life in the Lord temple of the Holy Spirit branch of Christ receptacle of the Most High wellspring of Living Water heir of the kingdom the glory of Godabode of the Trinity.God sings this litany eternally in his Word. This is who you are.
a litany of the person –
anonymous trappist monk
Ahimsa, January 20, 2008
Opening Prayer 1-20-07
Send Thy peace O Lord, which isperfect and everlasting,that our souls may radiate peace.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may think, act and speak harmoniously.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may be contented and thankful forThy bountiful gifts.Send Thy peace O Lord, that amidstour worldly strife, we may enjoy Thy bliss.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may endure all, tolerate all, in the thought of Thy grace and mercy.Send Thy peace O Lord, that our lives may become a Divine vision and in Thy light,all darkness may vanish.Send Thy peace O Lord, our Father and Mother,that we Thy children on Earth may allunite in one family.
prayer for peace -
pir-o-murshid inayat khan - 1921
Violence at its worst may be non-physical. A violent act is a desperate act. It is the demand of a person to force another to honor his desire and his need to be cared for, to be understood above the other’s need. It is a plea. A begging or a demand to have one’s need to belong fulfilled.
Howard Thurman
Non violence arises from a deep inner unity and an expression of divine oneness – an endless sea of mercy.
Non violence of the Divine calls us to an act of transformation, to recognize that power and to never believe that negativity is a final condition.
No one can prevent us from loving.
Beverly Lanzetta
If everything is connected, we cannot disconnect.To disconnect is not a real choice.This is why we are always spiritual no matter what we do.Every alcoholic is spiritual. All our brothers and sisters are spiritual.We may not be behaving correctly, but nevertheless, we arespiritual. Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways orin harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.Great Spirit, give me the knowledgeto be in harmony with the spirit today.
It's all spirit and it's all connected."--
Grandfather William Commanda, ALGONQUIN
What is this self inside us, this silent observer,Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us,And urge us on to futile activity,And in the end, judge us still more severely,For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?--
T. S. Eliot
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship tomyself.-- Nathaniel Branden
Everytime we heal ourselves we participate in non-violence.
Beverly Lanzetta
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Contributor: Rachel
Location: Bloomington, IL
Country: United States of America
Series: Contemporary
This I Believe
Growing up, the name Douglas Wright was a source of fear: a dread that the man who murdered my maternal grandparents would somehow be able to hurt me too. He was my boogeyman, my nighttime terror; as a child, I had a vague impression that he existed somewhere, but it was not until I realized the true meaning of my grandparents' murder that the man became a source of bitter anger.I stayed angry from the time I was eleven till the summer I turned thirteen. My mother and I returned to California, an odyssey which was as essential as it was heartbreaking. With every turn down the streets of Fairfield, I saw my grandparents' ghosts: I wondered as we passed every street, every park, "Where they here? Did they laugh as they watched their children play? What would it have been like to have met them, seen them, spent time with them?"One morning, my mother took me to the Fairfield Public Library; I was allowed, for the first time, to view the legal details surrounding my grandparents' murder, Douglas Wright's trial, and his subsequent conviction.What struck me most was a quote from his mother: she told the media, the entire state of California, that she loved her son and planned to stand by him. Reading that quote became one of the most important moments of my life: Douglas Wright was a son he was no longer a vague impression of a night terror. He was someone's son, and she loved him more than life.Before that moment, I had never realized that Douglas Wright is not solely a murderer but is also a son, a living, breathing person. There must have been, at some point in his life, moments during which he felt love for others. All people, even murderers, are human beings they are capable of feeling love and being loved. I cannot hate Douglas Wright; I have not hated him since the summer I turned thirteen. His mother loved him, and I cannot hate him. I can only remember the love I have been given, and use that love to forgive
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
St Francis
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
St Francis
Send Thy peace O Lord, which isperfect and everlasting,that our souls may radiate peace.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may think, act and speak harmoniously.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may be contented and thankful forThy bountiful gifts.Send Thy peace O Lord, that amidstour worldly strife, we may enjoy Thy bliss.Send Thy peace O Lord, that we may endure all, tolerate all, in the thought of Thy grace and mercy.Send Thy peace O Lord, that our lives may become a Divine vision and in Thy light,all darkness may vanish.Send Thy peace O Lord, our Father and Mother,that we Thy children on Earth may allunite in one family.
prayer for peace -
pir-o-murshid inayat khan - 1921
Violence at its worst may be non-physical. A violent act is a desperate act. It is the demand of a person to force another to honor his desire and his need to be cared for, to be understood above the other’s need. It is a plea. A begging or a demand to have one’s need to belong fulfilled.
Howard Thurman
Non violence arises from a deep inner unity and an expression of divine oneness – an endless sea of mercy.
Non violence of the Divine calls us to an act of transformation, to recognize that power and to never believe that negativity is a final condition.
No one can prevent us from loving.
Beverly Lanzetta
If everything is connected, we cannot disconnect.To disconnect is not a real choice.This is why we are always spiritual no matter what we do.Every alcoholic is spiritual. All our brothers and sisters are spiritual.We may not be behaving correctly, but nevertheless, we arespiritual. Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways orin harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.Great Spirit, give me the knowledgeto be in harmony with the spirit today.
It's all spirit and it's all connected."--
Grandfather William Commanda, ALGONQUIN
What is this self inside us, this silent observer,Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us,And urge us on to futile activity,And in the end, judge us still more severely,For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?--
T. S. Eliot
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship tomyself.-- Nathaniel Branden
Everytime we heal ourselves we participate in non-violence.
Beverly Lanzetta
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Contributor: Rachel
Location: Bloomington, IL
Country: United States of America
Series: Contemporary
This I Believe
Growing up, the name Douglas Wright was a source of fear: a dread that the man who murdered my maternal grandparents would somehow be able to hurt me too. He was my boogeyman, my nighttime terror; as a child, I had a vague impression that he existed somewhere, but it was not until I realized the true meaning of my grandparents' murder that the man became a source of bitter anger.I stayed angry from the time I was eleven till the summer I turned thirteen. My mother and I returned to California, an odyssey which was as essential as it was heartbreaking. With every turn down the streets of Fairfield, I saw my grandparents' ghosts: I wondered as we passed every street, every park, "Where they here? Did they laugh as they watched their children play? What would it have been like to have met them, seen them, spent time with them?"One morning, my mother took me to the Fairfield Public Library; I was allowed, for the first time, to view the legal details surrounding my grandparents' murder, Douglas Wright's trial, and his subsequent conviction.What struck me most was a quote from his mother: she told the media, the entire state of California, that she loved her son and planned to stand by him. Reading that quote became one of the most important moments of my life: Douglas Wright was a son he was no longer a vague impression of a night terror. He was someone's son, and she loved him more than life.Before that moment, I had never realized that Douglas Wright is not solely a murderer but is also a son, a living, breathing person. There must have been, at some point in his life, moments during which he felt love for others. All people, even murderers, are human beings they are capable of feeling love and being loved. I cannot hate Douglas Wright; I have not hated him since the summer I turned thirteen. His mother loved him, and I cannot hate him. I can only remember the love I have been given, and use that love to forgive
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
St Francis
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
St Francis
Ahimsa, January 13, 2008
1-13-08
Practice of Ahimsa (non-harm) develops love. Ahimsa is another name for truth or love. Ahimsa is universal love. It is pure love. It is divine Love. Where there is love, there you will find Ahimsa. Where there is Ahimsa, there you will find love and selfless service. They all go together.
There is one religion - the religion of love, of peace. There is one message, the message of Ahimsa. Ahimsa is a great spiritual force.
Sri Swami Sivananda
Donald Weeks
Donald Weeks, Sanskrit name Janak began studying Kripalu Yoga in 1991, in that same year he met his teacher yogi Amrit Desai, which started the process of transformation.He has lived and worked at the Amrit Yoga Institute for the past 3 1/2 years as music director and audio technician. He shares his joy for chanting and transformation with you today from his heart and his love.
You are the peace of all things calmYou are the place to hide from harmYou are the light that shines in darkYou are the heart's eternal sparkYou are the door that's open wideYou are the guest who waits insideYou are the stranger at the doorYou are the calling of the poorYou are my Lord and with me stillYou are my love, keep me from illYou are the light, the truth, the wayYou are my Saviour this very day.
you are god –
AMEN
Celtic oral tradition - 1st millennium
Beloved, to Thee I raise my whole being,a vessel emptied of self. Accept, O Lord,this my emptiness, and so fill me withThy Self --- Thy Light, Thy Love, ThyLife --- that these Thy precious Giftsmay radiate through me and over-flow the chalice of my heart intothe hearts of all with whom Icome in contact this day,revealing unto themthe beauty ofThy joyandWholenessandtheserenityof Thy Peacewhich nothing can destroy.
prayer of the chalice –
francis nuttall
Practice of Ahimsa (non-harm) develops love. Ahimsa is another name for truth or love. Ahimsa is universal love. It is pure love. It is divine Love. Where there is love, there you will find Ahimsa. Where there is Ahimsa, there you will find love and selfless service. They all go together.
There is one religion - the religion of love, of peace. There is one message, the message of Ahimsa. Ahimsa is a great spiritual force.
Sri Swami Sivananda
Donald Weeks
Donald Weeks, Sanskrit name Janak began studying Kripalu Yoga in 1991, in that same year he met his teacher yogi Amrit Desai, which started the process of transformation.He has lived and worked at the Amrit Yoga Institute for the past 3 1/2 years as music director and audio technician. He shares his joy for chanting and transformation with you today from his heart and his love.
You are the peace of all things calmYou are the place to hide from harmYou are the light that shines in darkYou are the heart's eternal sparkYou are the door that's open wideYou are the guest who waits insideYou are the stranger at the doorYou are the calling of the poorYou are my Lord and with me stillYou are my love, keep me from illYou are the light, the truth, the wayYou are my Saviour this very day.
you are god –
AMEN
Celtic oral tradition - 1st millennium
Beloved, to Thee I raise my whole being,a vessel emptied of self. Accept, O Lord,this my emptiness, and so fill me withThy Self --- Thy Light, Thy Love, ThyLife --- that these Thy precious Giftsmay radiate through me and over-flow the chalice of my heart intothe hearts of all with whom Icome in contact this day,revealing unto themthe beauty ofThy joyandWholenessandtheserenityof Thy Peacewhich nothing can destroy.
prayer of the chalice –
francis nuttall
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