Universal Prayer from Steven Thomson

Dear God, Spirit, Divine Mother,

On this day I ask you to grant this request,

May I know who I am and what I am, every moment of every day.

May I be a catalyst for light and love and bring inspiration to those who eyes I meet.

May I have the strength to stand tall in the face of conflict and the courage to speak my voice,  even when I am scared.

May I have the humility to follow my heart and the passion to live my Soul's desire.

May I seek to know the highest truth and dismiss the gravitational pull of my lower self.

May I embrace and love the totality of myself - my darkness as well as my light.

And may I be brave enough to hear my heat, to let it soften so that I may gracefully choose faith over fear.

Today is my day to surrender anything that stands between the sacredness of my humanity and my divinity.

May I be drenched in my holiness and engulfed by God.

May all else melt away. 

And so it is.

A Four-Fold Franciscan Blessing

May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with holy anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may tirelessly work for justice, freedom and peace among all people.

May God bless you with the gift of tears to shed with those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, or loss of all that they cherish, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and transform their pain into joy.

May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you really CAN make a difference in this world, so that you are able with God’s grace, to do what other’s claim cannot be done.

And the blessing of God the Supreme Creative Essence, Jesus Christ the Incarnate Word who is our brother and Savior, and the Holy Spirit, Advocate and Guide..be with you and remain with your, this day and forevermore.  Amen.