Meditating on the Lotus Blooms: In Hinduism, the lotus represents spiritual enlightenment, beauty, fertility, purity, prosperity and eternity. It is said that there’s a lotus flower in every Hindu’s heart, and that when this lotus blooms, the person achieves enlightenment: Glynn Wilson
The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Editor’s Note: Shakespeare had his prayers. Muir and Thoreau too. I don’t think Charles Darwin prayed much, or Edward Abbey for that matter. The man in the White House said he wants to get to heaven, while taking orders from the right hand of Satan himself. Don’t be fooled. Follow your heart.
These Lotus flowers in the ponds of Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens are from famous Lotus seeds germinated in the 1950s after being under a dry lake bed in China for 800 years, according to the National Park Service: Glynn Wilson
Here is My Prayer for this day and every day hence.
A Sunday Prayer for Earth and Freedom
Oh God of stars and Earth and sea,
If your breath births life and liberty,
We lift our voices, frail yet true,
To plead for the planet – and justice too.
The trees are burning, oceans rise,
Smoke veils the truth in trembling skies,
While power bends to selfish gain,
And hearts grow numb to human pain.
Preserve the gift of voices free,
Let every soul speak openly.
Guard every vote, each sacred right,
Let justice burn with steady light.
Uphold the truth where lies are sown,
Let courage bloom where fear has grown.
Turn hearts of stone to hearts that feel—
The wounds we cause, we need to heal.
For every child yet to be born,
Let not the world be left forlorn.
Revive the soil, the air, the seas,
Restore the balance, bring us peace.
Let leaders lead with servant hands,
And laws be just in every land.
May power bow to moral grace,
And love be law in every place.
Oh Holy Sun and Moon that yet may die,
Breathe hope anew neath the dark clouds in the sky.
Through us, through we, Your will be done:
Save Earth, save truth, save all from the greedy, guilty ones.
These Lotus flowers in the ponds of Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens are from famous Lotus seeds germinated in the 1950s after being under a dry lake bed in China for 800 years, according to the National Park Service: Glynn Wilson
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Amen.
