It’s a gentle day. The sun’s light, thin through passing clouds, is warm, kind. My skin soaks in this blessed Earth. My heart opens in Her safe embrace.
Watching the constant business of ants, I am at peace with the business of the world. I breathe the perfume of benevolence between Earth and Spirit, a synchronicity of life and energy. My senses rest in the beauty unfolding before me.
Blessed sun, I raise my hopes as the plant raises its arms to you. Fulfill my deep secret dreams, hidden even to myself. Wind, take the breath of my prayers to the four directions, and whisper their meaning back to me in the voices of the world, in the beating of human hearts. Soundlessly, our aspirations fill the ether, otherworldly stars in God’s eyes.
I submit myself to learn to breathe in rhythm once again, one cell in this living universe. Will of goodness, overtake my discontent and heal my fear, that I may draw upon the deep peace that stills the illusion of haste and madness. Make me transparent in Your Breath – inhale love, exhale goodness.
You, who serve God’s desire that all return to Love’s Hearth, keep company in my prayer: Let me exude loving kindness into the world to touch its colder parts. Strengthen my small light that others may recognize within themselves hope, kindness, love, peace and faith – all that is blessedly human.
In love, I thank you God, Earth, angels, comrades, for the mirror of Your Light and Love, where the business of ants goes on uninterrupted.
Amada Reza
December 30, 2009