{"id":809,"date":"2007-08-08T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=809"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:48:08","slug":"one-in-our-desire-for-faith-the-world-prayer-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/one-in-our-desire-for-faith-the-world-prayer-project","title":{"rendered":"One in Our Desire for Faith: The World Prayer Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"World<\/p>\n

Sometimes I forget the beauty of other faith traditions. Sometimes I get so narrow in the books I read, the places I visit, the web sites I search for, that I miss out on the presence of God in the wider world.<\/p>\n

The World Prayers Project<\/a> is a collection of adorations, invocations and celebrations from different faiths and faith traditions. It displays humanity’s unceasing desire to respond to God’s call. As Augustine said, our hearts are restless until they rest in God. The World Prayers Project shows how universal that restlessness is.<\/p>\n

Obviously, many of the prayers at the Project contradict what I believe about God and spirituality. Some sources are even what I would consider outrageous or ridiculous. Nevertheless, there is something beautiful in the endeavor to know and communicate to God, regardless of what a person means by the term God.<\/p>\n

The World Prayers Project is a testament to the power of God to elicit responses from his people. The varied nature of our responses as documented in the Project is a testament to our need for revelation and discernment, but is also a reflection of the diversity that God so generously distributes.<\/p>\n

We may not all be one in faith yet, but we are one in our desire for faith.<\/p>\n

Take a trip to The World Prayers Project<\/a> and spin the wheel to get a random prayer. Today I came across the Hail Mary, Psalm 51 and Ecclesiates 3:1-8.<\/p>\n

But I also came across the following:<\/p>\n

How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands!
\nThe heavens declare Your glory,
\nthe arch of the sky displays Your handiwork
\nIn Your love You have given us the power
\nto behold the beauty of Your world
\nrobed in all its splendor.
\nThe sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills,
\nthe rivers and the lakes all disclose Your presence.
\nThe roaring breakers of the sea tell of Your awesome might,
\nthe beast of the field and the birds of the air
\nbespeak Your wondrous will.
\nIn Your goodness You have made us able to hear
\nthe music of the world.
\nThe voices of the loved ones
\nreveal to us that You are in our midst.
\nA divine voice sings through all creation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–traditional jewish prayer<\/p>\n

It is not so important to love all men today
\nas it is that each day
\nyou learn to love one more human being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–urantia book<\/p>\n

Dear Jesus, help us to spread your fragrance
\neverywhere we go.
\nFlood our souls with your spirit and life.
\nPenetrate and possess our whole being so utterly
\nthat our lives may only be a radiance of yours.
\nShine through us and be so in us
\nthat every soul we come in contact with
\nmay feel your presence in our soul.
\nLet them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus.
\nStay with us and then we shall begin to shine as you shine,
\nso to shine as to be light to others.
\nThe light, O Jesus, will be all from you.
\nNone of it will be ours.
\nIt will be you shining on others through us.
\nLet us thus praise you in the way you love best
\nby shining on those around us.
\nLet us preach you without preaching,
\nnot by words, but by our example;
\nby the catching force –
\nthe sympathetic influence of what we do,
\nthe evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you.
\nAmen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— prayer of Mother Teresa<\/p>\n

Oh great and powerful ocean,
\nI fear and respect your beauty.
\nI wish not to take way
\nnor leave anything behind.
\nI only wish to dance
\nwith you for a short while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— a surfer’s prayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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