This Is My Prayer

 

I pray that the men and women who are the guards, who have taken and who care for these newly created prison camps, holding undocumented workers and others recently removed from their lives on American soil, find within their hearts, the ability to see all who are under their lock and key, as fellow human beings, and open their hearts to them with compassion and understanding.

I pray that the men and women being held in detention can find peace in their hearts and minds and be able to care for themselves properly and be able to sleep deeply despite the situation they find themselves in.  

I pray that those individuals, running our United States government, now and in the future, swiftly find truth and goodness within themselves and remember who they are: one with a good and loving Universe.  

I pray that we all, world wide, awaken to our empathy and feel what it is like to walk in the footprints of the other.  May we learn to share, to grow, to be kind and understanding and come to know the real meaning of compassion.  

I pray that all of the nations and governments of our world can find a way to smooth the waters of unrest pervading in so many areas.  May we all quickly move to a world beyond war, a world where the rule of law presides with justice, true justice, a world where compassionate healing environments prevail.

I pray that all of the animals are able to resume balance in their natural habitats and I pray that the plant kingdom becomes free once more to flourish in all of its diversity within our varied ecological systems.  I pray that the rocks and minerals be unmolested and allowed to be as they are.  

I pray that the climate and the great waters of the oceans are free to resume their natural patterns of global balance.  I pray that humankind becomes kind, and finds its way fully into embracing each individual with equality.  I pray that we come to be honoring of our differences, of our uniqueness, valuing this in one another, while respecting our own individual and collective self governance.  

I pray that all beings everywhere be free from suffering, be happy, be peaceful, and be free.

 

Josephine Laing
© 2025