Prayer #1   First Sunday of the Season

Contributed by: Rev.’s Les and Audrey Turner, The Creative Center for Spiritual Living.

As I light a candle and raise this single flame to the highest level of consciousness, where all is Spirit, all is Love, and all is Peace, I know that Love, Peace and Spirit are everywhere.  I embrace with highest Love this season for Nonviolence. As this single flame entwines with a multitude of lights, I accept this magnificence that nonviolence is also everywhere present.  I accept this for myself and for this community and for all communities of light. I see, sense and know this condition of nonviolent Life is expanding everywhere.  I am grateful for this.  With Thanksgiving I accept this new season for nonviolence, I claim a lifetime for nonviolence. My Prayer is the knowing of Peace. 

 What we resist persists, so I do not want to resist violence, I want to see beyond it to the truth of Peace.  How can I be in this world, but not of it, not of the hatred, discrimination, and violence?  I can be the solution. How can I have Peace, calm, perfection, and right action?  By being it. Right here and right now I let go of the illusion of war, hate, fighting and violence and see only the Truth of Peace.  Peace is where I came from, Peace is where I am, Peace is where I’m going.  

P: Perfect
E: Evolution
A: Accepting
C: Creative
E: Experience

Perfect Evolution Accepting Creative Experience.

Peace the absence of war.  Peace the absence of hate. Peace the absence of any kind of violence. Peace is the understanding of Love. I know and I know I know that Peace is all there is.  Peace is God being God.  I accept Peace, I am Peace, I see Peace, I smell Peace, I hear Peace, I taste Peace, I touch Peace, I know Peace is who and what I am.  Peace is action.  Peace in stillness. I experience Peace for myself, for every person, every animal, every living being on this wonderful planet, Mother Earth. Peace is, and so it is.