Cultivating Hope

Sunday Collect – April 24

Vincent of Beauvais – Sun and Moon (1463)

When enough people come together, then change will come and we can achieve almost anything. So instead of looking for hope — start creating it.— Greta Thunberg

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COLLECT

A recap/summary of the week’s prayers and contemplations

MONDAY
We celebrated signs of hope in Monday Whatever list of all things true, honest, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and worthy of praise.

TUESDAY
We saw Peter’s hope restored by the voices of women.

WEDNESDAY
We offered beatitudes of blessings for the earth. 

THURSDAY
We found a very present and future hope through the eyes of the smallest helpers on the planet. 

FRIDAY
We celebrated Earth Day 🌍

SATURDAY 
We looked back and returned to places of hope in our weekly examen. 

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THE LORD’S PRAYER

One Possible New Translation from the Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, 

Focus your light within us—make it useful:
Create your reign of unity now-
Your one desire then acts with ours,
as in all light, so in all forms. 

Grant what we need each day 
in bread and insight. 

Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold 
of others’ guilt. 

Don’t let surface things delude us, 
But free us from what holds us back. 

From you is born all ruling will,
the power and the life to do,
the song that beautifies all,
from age to age it renews. 

Truly—power to these statements—
may they be the ground from which all
my actions grow: Amen.