UNIVERSAL PRAYER

Universal Reflection (Composed at Cape of Good Hope: 1999

In striving to recognize the primacy of Fire and Light.

I feel kinship with my Zoroastrian sisters and brothers.

In striving to obey the Ten Commandments,

I feel kinship with my Jewish sisters and brothers.

In striving to be kind to neighbors and the needy,

I feel kinship with my Christian sisters and brothers.

In striving to be compassionate to creatures great and small,

I feel kinship with my Buddhist and Jaina sisters and brothers.

In striving to surrender myself completely to God Almighty,

I feel kinship with my Muslim sisters and brothers.

In the recognition that religious wisdom flows from the gurus,

I feel kinship with my Sikh sisters and brothers.

In the recognition that serving fellow humans should be the goal of religions,

I feel kinship with my Bahai sisters and brothers.

In my reverence for land and lakes, cloud and mountain

I feel kinship with my Amerindian sisters and brothers.

In feeling that these and more are all paths to the same Unfathomable Divinity,

I feel kinship with my Hindu sisters and brothers.

In my love and laughter, joy and pain,

I feel kinship with all my fellow humans.

In my need for nourishment and instinct to live on,

I feel kinship with all creatures on the planet.

In my spiritual ecstasy with this wondrous world,

I feel kinship with the Cosmic Whole.