by Edward Hays, a really awesome book of prayers and miscellaneous info for us planetary pilgrims.....super-highly recommended!

a sample ~

A Thursday Evening prayer ~

sacred gesture

O Divine Parent, how wondrous is my view of the universe
as our planet earth turns outward into space once again. Beyond counting are the stars that congregate in colonies of distant galaxies. May my heart blaze with their brilliance as I enter now into sacred silence.

period of silent prayer or meditation

Oh that my prayer may be as silent as the stars spread across this summer night sky. Grant me patience as I strive to sit in stillness, listening to your song of silence. I join my small voice to the symphony of the stars as I now pray.

a psalm, spiritual reading or personal prayer

The sun and her planets travel tonight, as they have for billions of years, on their eternal night journey in space. As I look out toward their unknown destination, I reflect on how I have used the gift of this day....

As marvelous as the universe is your gift of conscience, a beacon for my pilgrimage. I thank you for that gift which keeps me on course and continually calls me to give more and to be more. Tomorrow may I follow it with still greater devotion.

With great beauty you created our sun among a family of stars, in a great cloud of interstellar matter, gas and fire. Somewhere out in the starscape of this summer night, the brothers and sisters of our sun, born five billion years ago, are traveling their own mysterious paths, known only to you. I easily forget that, like our daystar, I too have brothers and sisters who are far distant but who share the same sacred Womb. I pray for them tonight, especially the lonely and afflicted, the dying and the sick. Wrap me in the cloud of your compassion and love as I soon will surrender to sleep.

I bow before you, Divine Father, Holy Mother,

Eternal Source of my existence.

Your heart is my home,

from you I have come

and to you I journey this night.

sacred gesture