As I rest in Your presence, Dear Lord, my heart fills with peace.
Even though there may be turmoil around me,
I turn to you and feel your loving hand lifting me above all concern.

From this higher spiritual perspective, I know,
truly know that nothing can disturb the peace of my soul.
Nothing can separate me from Your love,
for you and I are one, now and forever.

In Your presence, Dear Lord,
I am renewed;
I am enlightened;
I am comforted.

I no longer fear the unknown,
but approach it with the sure faith
that through Your infinite wisdom.
I will be guided to my good.

Thank you, Lord God,
for Your light that shines continually on my life’s path.

Thank you, Sweet Spirit,
For your guiding me,
For holding me close in your love
That never ends

I rest now in Your Presence,
and my heart is filled with Peace.

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The Prayer of St. Francis 

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

--St. Francis of Assisi

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The Prayer of the Chalice 

Dear God, to Thee I raise my whole being,
a vessel emptied of self. Accept, Lord,
this my emptiness, and so fill me with
Thyself -- Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy
Life -- that these Thy precious Gifts
may radiate through me and over-
flow the chalice of my heart into
the hearts of all with whom I
come in contact this day,
revealing unto them
the beauty of
Thy joy
and
Wholeness
and
the
serenity
of Thy Peace
which nothing can destroy.

-- Francis Nuttall

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A Variation of The Lord’s Prayer  
  
Eternal Spirit,
Earthmaker, Rainbearer, Lifegiver,
Source of all that is and that shall be.
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!

The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.

With the bread we need for today, feed us. 
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.

Amen

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"Namaste."   
(a Hindu greeting:  Say "Namaste" with hands pressed together, and slight bow)

The meaning of Namaste:  

I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells.
I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Truth, of Light, and of Peace.
When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, We are One.

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