<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Earth Prayer</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">O Endless Creator, Force of Life, Seat of the Unconscious, Dharma,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Atman, Ra, Qalb, Dear Center of our Love, Christlight, Yahweh, Allah,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Mawu, Mother of the Universe…</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us, when swimming with the stream, become the stream…</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us, when moving with the music, become the music…</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us, when rocking the wounded, become the suffering..</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us live deep enough till there is only one direction…</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">and slow enough till there is only the beginning of time…</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">and loud enough in our hearts till there is no need to speak…</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us live for the grace beneath all we want,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">let us see it in everything and everyone,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">till we admit to the mystery that when I look deep enough into you,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">I find me,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">and when you dare to hear my fear in the recess of your heart,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">you recognize it as your secret, which you thought no one else knew…</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">O let us embrace that unexpected moment of unity as the atom of God…</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">Let us have the courage to hold each other when we break and worship what unfolds…</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">O nameless spirit that is not done with us,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">let us love without a net beyond the fear of death</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">until the speck of peace we guard so well becomes the world…</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> - Mark Nepo</div></div></body></html>