July Litany

July 2021

O Spinner and Weaver of our lives: your loom is love. Through that love may we weave new patterns of truth and justice into a web of life that is strong, beautiful, and everlasting.

The Sacred Light: Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart’s secret places. Blessed is the light of love and compassion.

GIVE THANKS

For the grandness of Creation, worlds known and unknown, galaxies beyond galaxies, filling us with awe and challenging our imaginations, we give thanks.

For this fragile planet earth, its times and tides, its sunsets and seasons, we give thanks.

For the joy of human life, its wonders and surprises, its hopes and achievements, we give thanks.

For our human community, our common past and future hope, our oneness transcending all separation, our capacity to work for peace and justice amid hostility and opposition, we give thanks.

For high hopes and noble causes; for faith without fanaticism, for understanding of views not shared, we give thanks.

For all who have labored and suffered for a fairer world, who have sacrificed so that others might live in dignity and freedom, we give thanks.

For human liberty and sacred rites, for opportunities to change and grow, we give thanks and pray that we may live not by our fears but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds.

The Meditation                                Ancient Wisdom

The Community Blessing: May the Love which overcomes all differences, heals all wounds, and puts to flight all fears, be in us and among us now and always.