When I was just a Queer Palestinian child, I didn’t know any better; God was multicolour. Feeling Their facets and hugging their multitudes of love, All was just being, nothing made of. Palestinian and Queer was a Tibetan Bowl’s ring, That I heard sung in the womb of Rumi’s wing. See it, right there on […]
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Peace Blessing — Elizabeth Tapia, UK
Peace to the world Peace to the city Peace to the village Peace to the desert Peace to other Earth Peace to the cosmos Peace to you Peace to me Peace to my neighbour Peace to whom it may concern Peace. Peace. Peace! This blessing was first used at the 2017 Salisbury International Women’s Day […]
Read full textPrayer for ‘infection of good courage’ – Thomas More, England
Grant us, O Lord, The royalty of inward happiness And the serenity which comes from living close to Thee. Do Thou daily renew in us The sense of Joy so that by Thy Spirit, We may bear about us The infection of good courage. – Thomas More 1478-1535
Read full textAho Mitakuye Oyasin, all my relations — Lakota Nation, North America
All my relations. I honour you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer… To the Creator, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you. To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, […]
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