Pray for Our World Daily in 2011

Here we are with another chance for new begginings! Concious of our "oneness" with each other and with the world, let us begin each day of 2011 with a prayer for the world and for love to abound in it.

I agree with Reverend Desmond Tutu who believes our relationship with God is a love affair with our Beloved. Ultimately our greatest joy is just to be with the Beloved, to drink in the beauty of the Beloved in the silence of just being together in prayer. He adds, "We are made to live in a delicate network of interdependence with one another, with God and with the rest of God's creation....God is smart, making us different so that we will get to know our need of one another."

Rabbi Harold Kushner's prayer in the photo embraces this love for one another that is so needed in 2011 for the healing of our world. May this prayer touch your heart and inspire you to pray your own prayer for the world as you awaken to each new day.

Here is another beautiful prayer, this one from Desmond Tutu's An African Prayer Book:

An African Canticle

All you big things, bless the Lord.

Mount Kilimanjaro and Lake Victoria

The Rift Valley and the Serengeti plain,

Fat baobabs and shady manto trees,

All eucalyptus and tamarind trees,

Bless the Lord.

Praise and extol Him for ever and ever.

All you tiny things, bless the Lord.

Busy black ants and hopping fleas,

Wriggling tadpoles and mosquito larvae,

Flying locusts and water drops,

Pollen dust and tsetse flies,

Millet seeds and dried dagaa,

Bless the Lord.

Praise and extol Him for ever and ever.

Robert Lax also wrote a beautiful verse about Love being the beginning and the end of creation:

The Circus of the Sun

And in the beginning was love. Love made a sphere: all things grew within it;

the sphere then encompassed beginnings and endings, beginning and end.

Love had a compass whose whirling dance traced out a sphere of love in the void:

in the center thereof rose a fountain.