PRAYER OF HUMILITY

Our father

who art in heaven

our mother

who wanders among us

holy and homeless

hallowed be your names

(vessels

of essence, seedbeds

of archetypes and angels).

May your dream of us

be fulfilled in the

earth-sphere as it is

in the creative imagination

and revealed to us

here within the miraculous

work of this living earth:

a prophetic promise

of reverence for life

and of peace

and of justice.

Give us this day

the maturity of simplicity

wean us lastingly

from crimes against creation

even the addictions

of violence and greed.

Even as we with

courage rare and rarer

humility

reach out to those

who lay down the

weapons of war and

open their lives deep

to bone marrow and

depths of their souls

to new commensality.

For

yours is the

touchstone of liberation

and the anointment

of bio-democracy:

that all species

be protected from extinction

and all places

bearing the crucifixion of

time and habitat be

made re-genesis of the numen

and in healing

restored to the holy.

For ours

is the power of choice

as yours

is the baptism of glory.

David Sparenberg

3 Sept. 2012