Prayer for a Globalization of Solidarity

Awesome God of the expanding immensity of cosmic time and space,
Intimate God, at home in each human heart,
Energizing, Organizing God, drawing us together into global Solidarity,

Yaweh,
Allah,
Bra h man,
God of many names,
God of no name,
Abba,
Father Mother,
we thank You and we praise You
for the inspiration and human creativity
through which You are weaving us together
through communications and travel, social movements and expanding consciousness
into one planetary web of Life,
one stunning revelation of Your Creativity and Love.

Awesome
Intimate
Unifying
God,
we beg Your forgiveness
for every time,
for every way
that we let our small glimpses of Your Immensity
swell our smallness into arrogance,
dividing us from our sisters and brothers in whose hearts You dwell
through Other images, experiences, cultures, revelations,
Longing for the Fullness
that only our Oneness can reveal.

We ask you to break us free
í¢â‚¬"as gently as You can . . .
but as forcefully as we demandí¢â‚¬"
from the unconscious/conscious idolatry
of wealth and "free markets" and individualism and competition and consumption
that blind us to the rich complexity of Your Presence,

that reduce our sisters and brothers
í¢â‚¬"and usí¢â‚¬"
to consumers or producers, competitors or markets in our service.

Break the enduring chains
of slavery and colonialism
that have set our lives on such vastly diverging paths of wealth and poverty.

Turn those paths toward each other into
Your True Path
to Fullness and Unity.

Purge us of whatever it is within us
that turns our eyes away from Your crucifixion-by-poverty
in nearly three billion of
our sisters and brothers,
that allows us to starve Your Revealing and Unifying Love
in 800 million of
our sisters and brothers,
that allows us to plunder our planet,
uncaring of our children's children,
careless of the Sacredness it displays.

Yahweh,
Allah,
Bra h man,
God of many names,
God of no name,
Abba,
Mother Father,
alert us to
Your Sacred Presence,
Your Urgency,
Your Tireless Struggle
within each of us in our uniqueness,
in all of us in our infinite diversity,
through all the forces drawing us together into one global village.

Fill us
with as much awe and joy at Your Presence in our sisters and brothers,
with as much energy and passion to work with You
as we can bearí¢â‚¬"

that we all may be
One in You
and

You

may be glorified in us.

Amen.
Alleluia.