Creating, Sustaining, Redeeming One –
Through the dance of your interwoven union, we are continually directed towards the heart of the cosmos which is the beating pulse of Love.
We look through global headlines, in our communities, our homes, and our very bodies and at times find it impossible to sense the unitive thread of Love.
We experience how “separation” feels more like the story than “interconnection.”
Separation from the earth —
As fires rage in Nova Scotia Canada forcing thousands to flee their homes.
The country of Guam as it recovers from Typhoon Mawar. And the Philippines as they prepare for typhoon season where “super typhoons,” have become the new normal. Activists say that the country is now in a constant state of climate emergency.
The Guarani Indigenous community in Brazil after lawmakers approved a proposal that will gut Indigenous land rights and environmental protection.
Separation from each other —
A new anti-gay law in Uganda that calls for life imprisonment of anyone convicted of homosexuality.
A fire started “maliciously” in a secondary school dormitory in Guyana that killed 19 children.
Ongoing violence in Ukraine and Russia, in Israel and Palestine, in Sudan.
We pray for all these places and many others fraught by fragmentation, hatred, grief, violence, and brokenness.
You, Father/Mother, Child, Holy Spirit are, by your trinitarian being, the Story of Interconnection. You are the relational dance of Love. We participate in this dance, the threads of interconnected love between us are seen in the quiet and almost invisible ways:
Ukrainian mothers who went into Russia to get their special needs children who had been kidnapped by Russian soldiers.
A United States carpenter who is using medieval techniques to create a new roof for the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in France.
For the past 25 years, Shamshu Deen, a resident of Trinidad and Tobago has been helping families in the Caribbean find long-lost relatives in India. He has helped over 300 people so far.
Nepali guide, Gelje Sherpa, who found a Malaysian climber shivering and clutching a rope in the area of Mount Everest called the “death zone”, where temperatures can dip to -30C after a six day search.
We give thanks for these movements of love and all the countless acts of goodness, patience, love, beauty, compassion, creativity and connection that weave across our relationships, communities and world.
We pray for the entire world — may every single human body know themselves held and a part of the flow and union of Your Love.
Amen.
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