God is the be in beholding. God, is the be in beholding the way You hold us in Your love? God is the be in beholding. The way You hold us in Your love becomes ever deeper, wider as we age. God is the be in beholding. The way You hold us in Your love becomes ever deeper, wider as we age. Thanks be to God who beheld Her creation and called it good.
prayers
My Prayer This Morning
Beloved Creator, I praise You, I glorify You, I bless You, I give thanks for Your great goodness and tender mercy. To You I come, my all-powerful Lady and loving Mother.
Shine in my heart the light of Your grace. Shine in my mind the light of your love that I may walk towards and with others all my life, following your example of boundless compassion.
Glorified and exalted is Your holy being, many-named and many-manifested, now and forever.
Amen.
As Pharaoh
As Pharaoh Of my own life I make treasure Of false gold And enslave True treasure I harden my heart I turn my gaze on others Demanding their service I hold myself mighty I rest in comfort On my enveloping couch Ah, Lady Wisdom Hear my prayer Save me from myself Disturb my comfort Lower me While loving me Turn my gaze inward That I might see myself clearly But with your compassion Soften my heart Please Lady Wisdom Soften my heart Again and again Do not look away Watch for the first Brittle hardening Like frost across the windowpane That will hardened my heart into ice Please, Lady Wisdom Do not look away Only breathe, breathe Your soft holy mother breath Onto my hard freezing heart When the frost of anger threatens To harden my heart Exhale your soft holiness Into my soul And soften my heart
Early Morning Prayer
The fox does not know How to live Except in the moment The tree does not mourn Summer nor Long for spring The wave does not resent The shore Where it dies The sky does not conquer The earth To grasp more for itself The sun does not fear Setting As the earth spins The moon does not cling To full And refuse to wane Let me live Now Not then nor maybe Let me rejoice Knowing Not fearing death Let me welcome The new shore While enjoying the deep sea Let me share As the sky Shares rain with the earth Let me lighten My world Though sunset nears Let me wane Even as I have waxed Through days and years Let me feel the rhythm The eternal renewal Of each new now Of fox and tree Wave and sky Sun and moon In peace So may it be For me
A Prayer for Compassion
(Cf. Psalm 1) Blessed can I be If I do not run to compete If I do not stand around feeling better than others If I do not sit smugly judging others Instead let me focus on collaboration Turn my mind always to God’s compassion Then my spirit will take shape Like a fruitful tree Watered by fresh flowing communication Please, Lady Wisdom, Do not let me wither and shrivel into competition Help me be compassionate and collaborative, Nourished and nourishing Help me to remember that without compassion My efforts become like dead leaves Blown every which way by competitive thoughts My tree will be bowed down, broken and uprooted I will be unable to enjoy the ripened fruits of compassion The compassionate choice supports harmony and community The competitive choice brings discord and isolation. Amen
Gracelessness, Please
Dear Goddess, God, Divinity, Higher Power, Whoever I would like a favor, a blessing, a grace, a whatever Please I would like to do things badly Well not quite What I mean is I would like to not have to do things well Grant me satisfaction with imperfection (since that is all I can ever achieve, be) Let me enjoy the doing more than the done Amen, Namaste, Shalom, Blessings be, Whatever Oh, and thank you
A Prayer
To hold love lightly To bear sorrow softly To celebrate their youth To treasure my age To give help easily To accept help generously To feast on memories of then To drink deeply of now To plant contentment To harvest gratitude To seek without expectation To find without grasping To believe in unseen goodness To see this world’s divinity My prayer is just this: Please, Goddess, Let this be not too much to ask
Our Mother
Our Mother
Who art our earth
Hallowed be your resources
May you flourish more
May we honor your wisdom
As we see it in nature
Thank you for our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses against you
As we recognize they trespass against us too
Let us avoid the temptation of exploitation
Let us be delivered from unwise practices
For you are our home
Yours is true power
In you we should glory
Forever and ever
So be it
My Favorite Prayers
Why?
Are You kidding me?
Help!
I don’t even believe in You.
Go away!
Leave me alone!
How could You?
I don’t understand.
Religion is bullshit.
Faith haunts me.
Thank you
For remembering me
That I am made but of dust
And you can’t expect much
Of dust
Except maybe
The occasional sparkle
In Love’s sunshine
Thank you
For loving me
Even when I hate You
Even when I don’t believe
You exist.
Amen
The Lord’s Prayer – My Own Version
Dear God, my always and forever Best Friend, Faithful Lover, Greatest Security,
whether I remember You or not
whether I call on You or not
does not change Your greatness, Your supremacy
now and forever.
Help me to live now as I would want to live always:
my best life, my most generous life
for myself and others.
Help me to be satisfied,
to love myself and others,
to be as generous in forgiving myself and others
as You are in forgiving me – and others.
Help me to always focus on the good.
Keep me from despair over the not good.
For You are God,
Master and Mistress,
Savior and Advocate
of this world, of all worlds, of all time:
Sovereign, Powerful, Glorious – and Loving, Forever Loving.
Let it be so.
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