Upanishads: Lead Me
From the unreal, lead me to the real. From darkness, lead me to light. From death, lead me to immortality. Upanishads are part of the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts in Hinduism. The Upanishads are...
View ArticleJones Very: The Silent
There is a sighing in the wood, A murmur in the beating wave; The heart has never understood To tell in words the thoughts they gave. Yet oft it feels an answering tone, When wandering on the lonely...
View ArticleHerbert F. Vetter: Prayers
PULLING AND LETTING GO The archer hits the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go; the boatman reaches the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go. Before You, O God, I would learn the...
View ArticleVon Ogden Vogt: Prayers
A PRAYER OF AFFIRMATION Before You, O God, we freely affirm our faith: We believe in the goodness of life, realizable in the present world, available to all the people of the earth who seek the...
View ArticleJoachim Wach: O Holy One
Enlighten our minds, O Holy One, so we may understand each other and be saved from sterility of mind. Fill us with a sense of the urgency of our task. Save us from disabling despair and from undue...
View ArticleIsaac Watts: O God, Our Help
O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home, Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting You are...
View ArticleWalt Whitman: Prayers
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL Give me, O God, to sing; Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith, In your ensemble; Whatever else witheld, withold not from us Belief in plan of You enclosed in Time...
View ArticleDavid Rhys Williams: Prayers
FOR FAMILIES O God, whose home is the universe and whose universe is also our home: we lift up grateful hearts that the human race dwells together in families and that members of our families dwell...
View ArticleRoger Williams: You Make a Path
You make a path, provide a guide And feed a wilderness; Your glorious name, while breath remains, O that I may confess. Lost many a time, I had no guide, No house but a hollow tree. In stormy winter...
View ArticleGerard Manley Hopkins
GOD’S GRANDEUR The world is charged with Your grandeur, O God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do we then now not reck Your...
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