photo: malibu sky

You are the Eternal Mystery that enables
and holds and enlivens all things
—even us and even me.
Every name falls short of Your goodness and Your greatness.
We can only see who You are in what is.
In the beginning, now, and always.
Amen.

-Richard Rohr

malibu sky
© erin dunigan 2013

photo: st. francis and the swallows

The Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your 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;
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.

Francis and the swallows
© erin dunigan 2013

photo: temple prayer

temple prayer, Bangka Lungshan Temple Taiwan
© 2012 erin dunigan

Bangka Lungshan Temple