by Cyprian Rowe
May today not be another day of empty promises Beloved God,
Creator of the just and the unjust,
Lover of all humankind
share your eyes of love so that we will see beauty in all creation.
Let us, God, as we pass this way make it a way that sings
the glory of all your creation and celebrates the infinite variety
of your divinity in all and through all.
Help us, O God, to understand that the violence of "isms" --
whether racism or sexism or antisemitism,
heterosexism or militarism,
is a violation of your creative will.
Help us to understand, God, that we have neither
knowledge nor power to know the infinite designs of worlds
where by your grace we may inhabit.
Help us explore the heights and depths
of our need to love and be loved,
to understand that what we hate
is often our sense of incompletion.
We shout against creations that we cannot love
because we fear and do not understand.
We need to understand because we need to bow before them
as being godly as we too are godly.
Help us, God, and in the spirit of Mary, Mother of the afflicted,
let us stand by the cross of our own humanity
loving it and knowing that dying to hatred
is the only path to salvation
in the name of our loving Brother, Jesus Christ. Amen.
