The Peace of God, A Prayer Poem
The Peace of God, A Prayer Poem
By the Reverend Teak Kilmer
In Indigenous societies, there is almost no mental
illness, and when they do have a rare onset, the episodes generally do not last
for long and are milder than in our culture. They have no drugs. They eat only wild grown, gathered and hunted
foods and herbs and organic crops. Their
communities completely support the ill person until well again.
The studies that do include diet as a potential cause
of onset of mental illness, list diet as the number one cause of
onset.
In this poem the word Nature is used sacredly. Name and Nature have the same root, so “Do this in My Name also means do this in My Nature – be like me kind and loving as you ask for gifts from Me. Whenever the word “Nature” is used in this prayer think of earth’s and God’s Nature, as they are inseparable.
Let us Pray:
Grant us wisdom to return to
learning: from and being in Your Nature
to again ingest the foods
that through nature you have provided us
to restore our air and water
to as purely as you gave it, renew our pace
to your pace, being still, in the silence wherein your voice that whispers can be heard
Restore our sense of
concern to fill need before greed, and the
love that is your love share
without condition, without limits
Show us again to practice only the Spirit of the Law, which is one alone – to love, to
judge not, as that is the opposite of love, to fear not, as that too is love’s opposite, to
trust You and honor reason, wake up to population stresses, overcrowding
stresses, destruction of habitat of your nature that alone heals most gloriously your
troubled, over-stimulated, fragile, beautiful beings. Quantity is destroying quality and
now we have the ‘devil’s' work of global warming to undue. This once Eden that could
again be Heaven on Earth, for this shake us like trees in the wind to awaken to the
disdain with which we treat Your Gifts of Life and our home that you have provided for
this Life
We pray all these and to teach us to note this wisdom – that we are called Man- kind, for
kindness is our charge, our only goal and only Gift we need, from You from one
another. When these above we do, of mental illness and of suicide we will rarely know.
They will surely lose again their way with us as we no longer offer invitation for their
visitation. Society itself has slowly become ever less sane, and it is we in our ways who
make each other have onsets of these horrific illnesses and it is we who must honor Your
Will, Your Way, Your Healing and
by the doing, by Your Grace and our partnership
Find for one and all the
Peace of God
In Your Name, in Your Nature
for these we pray … AMEN
Beloved prayer.
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