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A Prayer of Gratitude for Those Looking After Rivers
Creator God, we give you hearty thanks for the work of Living Lands & Waters (livinglandsandwaters.org), the only industrial-scale river cleanup organization in the world.
Fact: The crew of LL&W…
The Mystery of Awe
Jordan Rosenfeld in a nymag.com article reports on the explorations into the social and emotional functions of awe by psychologists. Jonathan Haidt and Dacher Keltner published a study of this form …
Always There Is Hope
Transformational Wisdom
Conversation is the way we discover how to transform the world, together.
— Margaret Wheatley in Turning to One Another
Psychological Wisdom
Thinking people welco…
A Spiritual Recovery Program
Sufi Wisdom
We need a spiritual recovery program for those addicted to the separate self.
— Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart
Nature Wisdom
If Earth does grow inhospitable toward huma…
A Prayer about Climate Change and Wildfires
Creator of trees, fire, wind, and warmth, You have given us the capacity to feel deep compassion for places and beings affected by wildfires. In 2012, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfi…
A Prayer for Forgiveness of Our Daily Pollutions
Global warming, notes this article by Jon Queally on CommonDreams.org, is making the world hot and dry and also cold and wet. It snowed last week in Jerusalem. China is enduring its coldest winter i…
What You Do
Literary Wisdom
There's something to be said for sitting still and letting things clear, the way morning fog burns off the lake.
— George Witte, American poet
Medical Wisdom
The small am…
Spirit Bathing for the Worried and Beleaguered
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
— Jack Gilbert, A…
Life as Uncharted Territory
Literary Wisdom
Life is uncharted territory.
It reveals its story one moment at a time.
— Leo Buscaglia, American author and motivational speaker
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Music Lyrics
We got sunshine in the music
Music keeps me full of love.
— "Sunshine in the Music" by Jimmy Cliff
Transformational Wisdom
I do not like that man.
I need to get to know hi…