A Prayer for Falling In Love Anew With This World
Lover of This World and So Many Others, may we fall in love anew with this world every day, drinking in what is good and beautiful about it. May we delight in music that brings us together in dancing and celebration, and croon love songs to one another and to the earth itself. May we read broadly and deeply, wisdom from our own traditions and cultures and from many others, stories that feel easy and stories that challenge, poetry that lifts our hearts and poetry that makes us think or mull over it for days. May we fall in love with the goodness in this world noticing incidents of kindness and bothering to practice generosity and kindness ourselves. May we fall in love with the goodness of this world cheering each other on for being brave and for trying and for failing and for learning and for trying again. May we fall in love with our creativity in clothing and how we can present ourselves, dressing for this world as if each day is worthy of us gracing it and of us celebrating today. May we fall in love with this world, again and again, in flavors and fragrances and cooling shade and cool drinks on hot days with neighbors and warm drinks on cold nights with friends. Lover of This World and So Many Others, may we fall in love anew with this world every day, and fall in love with the splendors of the nighttime as well. Amen.
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