Peace Prayers

[Guest guest]

I am at home in the universe. I carry my home with me.

No matter where I go, I cannot be less than at home.

The forests are the rooms of the house of my

childhood. The winds are my mother’s arms. The sun is

my child’s laughter. The caterpillar crawling on my

hand is my brother’s arm thrown over my shoulder.

The children playing in the street of another

country are my children. The stranger’s bed encloses

me in the sleep of my covers. The earth is my home and

its creatures are my family. There is no loneliness to

overtake me. I am not stricken to find my home. I

breathe interstellar space.

The world is pasture for my mind, forage for my

imagination. The universe is at home in my mind, its

creatures live friendly within me. I live warm and

friendly within my fellows in the

starry world.

 

~~~ Ken Patton

 

Page 27 (Affirmations and Invocations) Life Prayers

>From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Blessings and

Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey. Roberts

and Amidon, Harper Collins

 

 

Apprehend God in all things,

for God is in all things.

 

Every single creature is a full of God

and is a book about God.

 

Every creature is a word of God.

 

If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature---

even a caterpillar---

I would never have to prepare a sermon.

So full of God is every creature.

 

~~~ Meister Eckhart

Page 251b (Benediction for the Animals) Earth Prayers

>From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and

Invocations For Honoring the Earth. Roberts and

Amidon, Harper Collins

 

 

 

Would You Think it Odd?

 

Would you think it odd if Hafiz said,

 

“I am in love with every church

And mosque

And temple

And any kind of shrine

 

Because I know it is there

That people say the different names

Of the One God.”

 

Would you tell your friends

I was a bit strange if I admitted

 

I am indeed in love with every mind

And heart and body.

 

O I am sincerely

Plumb crazy

About your every thought and yearning

And limb

 

Because, my dear,

I know

That it is through these

 

That you search for Him.

 

~~~Hafiz

Page 27, I head God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, by

Daniel Ladinsky