When I pray to you for help, O God,

Do I hope that you will intervene,

Treating me as powerless as a child

Who can do no more than kick or scream?

As a human being come of age

Help me work with you to earth each dream.

We can work together with your power

As we trust the Christ who dwells within

Every human being’s deepest self

And in whom all life is kith and kin,

For the energy that moves the stars

Is the same that flows beneath our skin.

You are neither ill-disposed nor deaf

Yet we think we need to change your mind,

Urging you to listen to our prayers

Though our hearts are careless and unkind.

Help us change our rigid ways of thought

And embrace what each of us can find.

In the flow of life’s great cosmic stream

We can find the loving that transforms.

As dependencies release their hold

We emerge from thinking which deforms

To discern your just and loving peace,

Peace and growth for life in all its forms.

Text and Music © William Livingstone Wallace.

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