Our Common Humanity
“I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live.”
Written within the soul of humanity is a song of faith to the divine. Today we take a moment to remember the common humanity we share with billions, with billions who have gone before us and with billions yet to be born throughout this global village. To help us in our praying today, we turn to a prayer from the Aztec Indians:
“Mother of gods, father of gods, Ancient God,
A mere appendage of this realm, a common person, has come.
He/she comes crying, he/she comes in sadness,
he/she comes with guilt.
Perhaps he/she has slipped, perhaps he/she has stumbled
Perhaps he/she has touched the bird of evil,
the spider’s web, the tuft of thorns:
It wounds his/her heart, it troubles him/her.
“Master, Lord, ever present, ever near,
Take the pain from him, from her:
hear the pain of this common person.”
A prayer: God be with me as I interact with others today. Amen.
--Ben Keckler
04.27.11
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