Moment of Oneness, November 2, 2022

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What We Leave Behind

Opening Prayer: Holy One, we place ourselves, as part of your ever-evolving creation, in your vast embrace.  Hold us as we unfold, as we become, as we fully inhabit our true selves.  Help us to be who we are meant to be, preparing to leave traces of good behind when our time comes to enter eternity.

Reading: From “Written in the Stars,” by Adrienne Blatchford

I learned from a very young age that it is important to work hard to be a good Ancestor, even while I am here.  Bless and be blessed. Honor your elders. Teach the young. Do it all with love and compassion. Respect the animals, for they give themselves to you. If you make a mistake, whether it be in sewing or in life, make it right. What you put into the universe will be returned to you. Be a steward of the land and water and what they provide.

Intentions:  What We Hope to Leave Behind

We turn to the Holy One and ask for courage to stand in the face of injustice and corruption that the planet we leave behind is united in justice.  

Response:  We pray for courage.

We turn to the Holy One and ask for perseverance to keep reaching out to those who turn a blind eye to the poor and marginalized so that when we leave this world behind it will be a world where everyone shares in its bounty, and everyone has enough.

Response:  We pray for perseverance.

We turn to the Holy One and ask for wisdom to discern well the path of life, the path that Jesus pointed out to us, so that when we leave this earth behind we leave that path well-trodden so that others can find their way.

Response:  We pray for wisdom.

Holy One, we ask above all for love.  Love of this earth and all its people and creatures, everything that has sprung from the infinite source of love that is you, so that when it comes time for us to leave this beautiful creation behind it will be more splendid than when we first beheld it.

Response:  We pray for love.  

Closing Prayer: From “Time Capsule,” by Manon Voice

In a hundred years forward of timelessness we will tell them

That our village became every visitor we would ever cross.

That we set ourselves free.

We brought our girls home from the prowl of predators.

We taught our boys it was ok to cry.

We proclaimed, “yes, love wins!”

And let those who wish to be called “they” be them.

This body, the campus of organs, is sacred geometry,

And we are the dance of the physical and the spiritual,

The poetry, the physics,

The music and the math;

The universe a reflection of the interior we already have.

In a hundred years forward of timelessness

What we hope to be able to tell them is that

“Yes, you were worth saving.”

So we decided to start with ourselves.

Closing Song:  “What Shall I Give” by Sara Thompsen   https://youtu.be/t9rYcvSSRQQ