UniversalistPrayers

Evening Prayer January 29, 2012

Peace sow seeds of hope and mercy all around this world, in every place iniquity and enmity thrive, in every heart hardened by cynicism and bitterness. Grow full in love’s holy quiet, turning us away from the easy habits of hurting into the generous grace of giving back in praise and thanksgiving. Courage teach us how to grow steadfast and stay humble, how to care deeply and give thanks for every day, how to live with grief and love mightily. Peace, sow these seeds of creative mercy and joyous hope, and let us be bearers of their fruits. Amen.

 

Morning Prayer January 29, 2012

Mercy and Compassion I study your ways when I wake and before I sleep and as I find myself in life’s wonderment and wanderings through every day. Cleanse my heart and free me from the stuck places, the ways I so easily grow mired in greed, in wanting what I don’t need, in seeking what others have. Turn me again whole-heartedly to life’s blessings, to how much I can do and give today, to finding and adding to goodness, to giving thanks and singing praise. Mercy and Compassion, teach me to be bold in love and courageous in generosity, now and evermore. Amen.

Evening Prayer January 28, 2012

Open our hearts in hospitality to one another. Open our hearts as strangers, as enemies, as neighbors, as kin. Open our hearts as people of one place and in another, people of this place to welcome people from another, people passing through and people here for the long haul. Open our hearts to the traveler, wanderer, dispossessed, and displaced, the uprooted and the restless, the cast out and the exiled. Open our hearts and our stories to one another, that we may in Mercy’s Name, make a place, even for a little while, where we belong, where we love mightily, where we give thanks in our different ways, where we are one in the one Heart of Life. Amen.

 

Morning Prayer January 28, 2012

Drop by drop life collects in the palm of my hand, life in this middle of these dry and desert times, life amid the salt and the tears, life calling me back in wonder and in thanksgiving to the Source of All. Praise indeed for life and the source of blessings! Praise for the rising sun and for the cooling breeze, for the gentle shade in the heat of day and for the warmth of the hearth in the middle of frozen winter. Drop by drop I follow the coursing, growing, collecting wonder and find myself once again full of gratitude, rich in amazement, unable to stop the Alleluia of my heart. Amen.

 

Evening Prayer January 27, 2012

Courageous Compassion call us together to be strong in care and bold in love to protect those in need of protection, to nurture little wonderful dreams of goodness into flowering gardens of generous care, to shelter those in need of respite and to build a world where all are fed, all are welcome, all are freed to give to goodness and to sing with thanksgiving. Courageous Compassion encircle us with steadfast love and teach us how to live, dream, and dance in that holy way, sustaining us in the dry times, laughing with us in the good times, and bearing with us through every time and every season with an endless cup of hope and a song of love. Amen.

Morning Prayer January 27, 2012

Rejoice, my soul, with the morning light and sing a song of praise! This is a day for Alleluia! just as surely as it is a day for Please? and When? and Why? and How? Let me find reasons to give thanks and when I run out of reasons, let me turn to sharing the gifts I have to add to this life’s blessings, and give thanks for being able and called so to do. Rejoice, my soul, with the morning light and sing a song of praise! This is a day for No to iniquity, to greed, to loathing, and to pity, so that I can follow instead the way to Yes in love, in mercy, in generosity, and in wonderment and joy. Rejoice, my soul, and sing this song of praise! Alleluia! Amen.

Morning Prayer January 26, 2012

How wonderfully generous and abundant life can be! What happiness there comes from being grateful! What joy there is in the wonderment of being! Renewing Wonder, open our hearts to appreciating life’s blessings. Mercy and Compassion open our hands and spirits to sharing what we have, to discovering enoughness and to growing abundant goodness in each and every day. Mercy knows there is plenty of suffering and plenty of pain and lots of not enoughness that is real and urgent. Compassion turn the faces and open the hearts of the people who can do something, even small things, to help meet those urgent needs. Prepare our hearts and send us to make the way of mercy real, the way of steadfast love enduring from passing day and passing actions, blessing and building the way of generosity. All of days, may we be glad and attending to growing abundant goodness wherever we find ourselves, knowing the Mercy and Compassion can grow everywhere with steadfast love. Amen.

 

Evening Prayer January 26, 2012

Give thanks, my heart and my people, for the goodness cared for and attended by the Lover of Life and so many hearts and hands. In thanksgiving, let us nourish and grow fruitful in generosity, in kindness, in open-hearted care of and serving the needs of this world. Let us be bold in courage and attentive in steadfast love, when we are strangers and when we are at home, near or far, in need and in plenty, in ease or in struggle. We devote ourselves in service; we pray with words, song, and deeds; we live ever in wonder and seek to grow more generous ourselves, more able to add to life’s blessings, night by night, prayer by prayer, loving and faithing together. Amen.

Evening Prayer January 25, 2012

Gather together, every heart, the gifts and blessings we have known and make a bouquet of gratitude to lay upon the altar of offering, the altar of life. Let each of us bring what we can, out of what we have been given, out of what we have worked for, out of what we have inherited. Let us set down, even if only for a little while, our cares and heavy burdens, pour out the waters of grief and bitterness, and rest in the quiet place of steadfast love. Drink deep, every heart, from the well of wonder, and find gratitude wakening again, courage growing stronger, and weary bones ready to dance with hope. Gather together, every heart, to seek these blessings, to give back and to give over, sustained by mercy and bound together in trust. Amen.

Morning Prayer January 25, 2012

Hail and Hosanna! My heart sings with joy to the morning in gratitude for the bountiful blessings I have received, for the opportunity to join again in the blessing of this life in this new day. The sweetness of life sustains me. The morning calls me. May I meet all this day with such gratitude and wonder! May I learn to find the blessing in all circumstances, know thanksgiving in all places. Amen.