Loving energy that flows throughout the universe,
fill my soul with hope.
I fall more deeply into despair
as the hours of every day pass.
I look around our world and see hatred,
greed and envy,
selfishness and hate.
I see a world of people unwilling,
perhaps even unable,
to accept each other as brothers and sisters
of the same parent:
You, our eternally loving God.
Our world is full of dis-ease,
and while our great minds
have discovered many ways
to provide relief,
too many of us still suffer
from the deadly sting of poverty,
which unfairly withholds treatment
from those most desperately in need.
This world is unacceptable.
This situation must change.
We who believe in You
must be the agents of change.
On this day,
designed to bring about awareness
of the dis-ease of the world,
our prayer is for hearts and pocketbooks to be opened,
so that no person,
anywhere in the world,
of any ethnicity, age or gender,
need suffer in dis-ease.
Deep within,
trapped somewhere in a soul
we long ago sold to the purveyors of lies,
there remains a spark of love.
Deep within,
our hearts reveal a memory that
we are all One:
One race of humans,
one species,
related through the stuff of stars
that pervades every bit of matter in the universe
Deep within,
our DNA remembers
that we all matter—
deeply, powerfully, compassionately.
Remind us of our connection through You,
the creative elemental of all elements,
so that we will remember our connection to each other.
Eternal God,
remind us that without each other,
we will surely all perish from the face of this Earth.
Soften our hearts and motivate us
to share our wealth
not with the captains of industry,
who never have enough,
but rather with our sick and our dying,
who never have enough.
Amen.
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