Peace Prayers

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Make us worthy, Lord,

to serve others throughout the world

who live and die

in poverty and hunger.

Give them, through our hands,

this day their daily bread,

and by our understanding love,

give peace and joy.

 

~~~ Mother Teresa

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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.

 

~~~ The Prophet Muhammed

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But we have only begun

to love the earth.

 

We have only begun

to imagine the fullness of life.

 

How could we tire of hope?

--so much is in the bud.

 

How can desire fail?

--we have only begun

 

to imagine justice and mercy,

only begun to envision

 

how it might be

to live as siblings with beast

and flower,

not as oppressors.

 

Surely our river

cannot already be hastening

into the sea of nonbeing?

 

Surely it cannot

drag, in the silt,

all that is innocent?

 

Not yet, not yet—

there is too much broken

that must be mended,

 

too much hurt we have done

to each other

that cannot yet be forgiven.

 

We have only begun to know

the power that is in us if we

would join

our solitudes in the

communion of struggle.

 

So much is unfolding that must

complete its gesture,

 

so much is in the bud.

 

~~~ Denise Levertov

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and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey.

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