When I despair,
I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Think of it - always.
mahatma gandhi - early 20th century
Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people.
Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect for all children of the earth.
Creator, open our hearts to respect for the earth, and all the gifts of the earth.
Creator, open our hearts to end exclusion, violence, and fear among all.
Thank-you for the gifts of this day and every day.
native american - micmac -
alycia longriver - 1995
Something new is upon us, and yet nothing is ever new. ...
We are alive in a fearsome time, and we have been given new things to fear.
We've been delivered huge blows but also huge opportunities to reinforce or reinvent our will, depending on where we look for honor and how we name our enemies.
The easiest thing is to think of returning the blows.
But there are other things we must think about as well, other dangers we face.
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves—these may also be our enemies.
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
small wonder -
barbara kingsolver - 2002
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