Guidance

May we serve as guides.

May we ask for wise guidance.

Compass: Love, kindness.

May Love’s light lead us

when our eyes can’t find the path,

when darkness blinds us.

May Love's light lead us 

through troubles' trials, travails, 

to liberation.

May we find our way 

through confusion and conflict,

through challenge and change.

May we all be freed 

from worries' webs, snares, traps, tricks.

Love’s wisdom guide us.

Love’s wisdom guide us,

step by step by step by step.

We advance with faith.

May Love’s wisdom

guide our thoughts, words, acts.

May Love’s peace

fill our towns, streets, minds.

May Love’s goodness

fuel our homes, hearths, hearts.

May we find

gentleness,

goodness,

grace,

when feeling

sad,

strained,

stressed.

May we find

or figure out paths

between the hopeful

‘what if’s’

and the actualized

‘what is.’

We ask for guidance

for our sight, speech,

steps, souls.

We ask for guidance

to choose Good,

to do Good,

doubtless or doubtful,
trusting, from the depth of our hearts.

We ask for guidance and wisdom

to know what to do each day.

We ask for valor and vitality

to be able to do it.

We ask for guidance

and inspiration

so that we can make

our contribution.

We ask to be led to lead,

to be taught to teach,

to be assisted to assist.

We ask for guidance

to recognize, to remember

what will allow us

to respond with what is true, what is real,

what is accurate, what is right,

what is proper and precise,

what is opportune, fitting, fair,

what is beneficial and benign,

what is effective, efficacious, efficient,

what is due to each moment,

to each choice and decision.

May we open ourselves

to wise guidance

to know what to do, say,

refrain from doing, refrain from saying.

To know what goes first, second,

later, never.

To know where to go.

To know who to follow,

and who to serve.

To know how to learn,

how to teach,

how to love, how to live,

how to walk, how to be.

May we open ourselves to

and remain 

alert and attentive

to Goodness’ and Grace’s 

gentleness 

and guidance.

May we recognize

the signs

of precaution,

of direction,

of confirmation,

of correction.

We ask for feedback cues.

How well are we playing our role?

How well are we singing our song?

May we not let ourselves get off tune.

May we not let ourselves be detoured.

May we not let ourselves get side-tracked

by what is not important, urgent,

significant, transcendent.

May we follow

the crumbs on the path 

left behind by wise ones 

who came through before us.

May we lead

leaving enough crumbs 

for the many more

who will come behind us.

May we guard our gate.

May we walk our way.

May we find our fate. 

May we find a way

forward.
May we find a way

among and around all.
May we find a way

through.
May we find a way

home.

We ask for guidance

to be led to ways

that lead us home,

to learn how walk

our way back home.

We ask for guidance

to see and to step

home-bound

with gratitude, generosity,

with goodness and grace.

May we learn

a good way.

May we teach

a good way.

May we walk

a good way.

May we remember

that there is more than one

Good way.

And,

if and when we are not going

with those who are good

for something good,

may we get out of the way.

We ask for direction

as we focus our attention,

as we organize,

as we the pending matters prioritize.

We ask for direction 

as we orient ourselves,

as we make choices, 

as we engage our mind and hands.

We ask for direction 

as we perform our daily duties,

so that each time, in each place, and on each task

Goodness plays the leading part.