Lover of Diversity, may we acknowledge the harm and wrong-doing that is carried over history and over beliefs we may have learned and made part of ourselves. Help us name, understand, and change these beliefs that may set up some people as being better than others because of how we or they look, we or they think, we or they move, we or they communicate, we or they live, pray, and thrive. Help us release harmful beliefs that teach us to oppress ourselves and others, such as the idea that there is one narrow range of body shape or size appropriate for all, or the idea that some eye colors are more beautiful and some are less, or the idea that health is proof of virtue. Lover of Diversity, we are here in so many amazing cultures, variations in human expression and thriving, understanding and devotion. Teach us to spend more time appreciating one another and supporting each other to living meaningful and joyful lives and less hypercritical and judgmental ones about stuff that may not be in our influence or control or has been a way of causing historical and current harm. Invite us each day to breathe with as much freedom as we can, making it so for one another, freedom to love, to create, to live well in or myriad ways of being. Amen.
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