Spirit of beauty, truth and love.
Spirit that resides inside us, beside us, beneath us and above us.
Send your blessings through us, among us, rising up from the ground into our bodies, raining down from the heavens on all the Earth’s creatures.
Forgive us the times when we have acted against you, against ourselves, and against each other.
Forgive us the times when we failed to notice beauty in our selves or others or the world, when we failed to make the beauty we could have, when we made ugliness instead.
Forgive us the times when we spoke less than the truth to our own advantage, when we used our powers of reason and persuasion to justify actions we knew to be unworthy, when we let damaging lies said in our presence go unchallenged because of our own fear of confrontation.
Forgive us the times when we could have loved more but loved less, or acted from hate. Forgive us the times we failed to love ourselves, failed to love our neighbor, failed to love our enemy, failed to love the holy ideal we claim to seek.
Move us deeper into your realm of beauty. Help us see more clearly the world of justice we can yet create and guide us toward it. Grant that we should live in love, as loving people in loving community, and held in your loving embrace, eternally.
Amen
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