A Prayer of Remembrance and Repentance
Mama Gaia, Papa Starlight, your children we all do be: We who live on the land, fly through the sky, or swim in the sea.
You gifted us with life, and set within us a seed-like image of what we are to be.
Help us unfold this image ever more fully, that we may come to know and love and be one with our fellow creatures, just as you, Mama and Papa, know and love and are one with us.
Teach us to love those who have harmed us. For prices must be paid; and we, too, are not yet reliably kind and mindful.
Temper your human children as gently as may be. We so easily go astray, and lose our way, and are slow learners.
May Grace shield us from overeating the fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So when the needful and often subtle temptations arise, please strengthen our compassionate restraint.
Then as time ripens and this tree has served its purpose, guide us to the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of people and nations.
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Photo by Victor Fischer.
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