A Meditation. "That we might be worthy of the great gift of life that is ours."

Too often in the narrowness of our anxiety
We ignore the broader horizon of Thy justice

We would grow, Source of Life,
grow to majestic proportions,
Become, instead of atoms of isolation,
Solar systems, even galaxies of connection.
Until thy spirit, abiding in us,
Shall infuse and transform
The whole of Creation.

Enlarge us, we pray,
By Thy holy presence in our lives,
Create in us a sympathy so robust
That we will feel our kinship
With all who struggle and suffer,
On this green globe which is our common home.

Forgive us our negligence and our transgressions.
Confirm us in all the ways of reason and virtue,
That we may finally be worthy
Of the great gift of Life which is ours.

Amen

By Dwight Brown (which was Mediation #1 in Exaltation; A Mediation Manual, compiled by David B. Parke.