dear God,
thank you
for all the beauty
& goodness
in our lives.
help us
to open our hearts
open our hearts
open our hearts.
help us
to find a way
find a way
find a way
to do good
with our lives.
help us
to find
your way.
thank you
for the comfort
& well-being
of this world.
thank you
for our health––
for the freedom
to discover
who we are––
& the divine
commandment
to love
& to serve
others.
help us
to fly above
the worries
in our lives––
to have what we need
to have––
to be where we need
to be––
to share
all we can!
please grant us
food & light & water
for our adventures
& help us
to grow our minds
& love our hearts
day-by-day!
give us purpose
& teach us kindness.
give us the grace
to see ourselves
on our earth
as we truly are––¬¬
to begin
to comprehend
the blessings
of being.
grant us dreams
of how
our world
should be.
help us
calibrate
our ideas
& carry them
with humility
to where
they belong.
spare
all beings
from the pain
of starvation
& soften the lessons
of suffering.
banish all
oppression
from our earth¬¬––¬¬
& gently bend
the souls
of the oppressors
towards your
light.
how can we learn
to forgive?
to let go
of hate?
to break the poison habit
of greed?
to stop killing
each other in war?
to quit destroying
the planet we live on?
we're young angels,
& we have so much
to learn.
thank you for
our living, breathing
friends,
for plants & clouds
& stones.
help us to realize
this earth
is our heaven
forever after.
forever more.
amen.