Find a Stillness: a meditation for All Ages in this time of war
Rev. Eva S. Cameron
Assistant Minister
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Ann Arbor, MI
We come here to this place
with many different thoughts and feelings
in our hearts and in our heads.
Some of us are sad
and some of us are glad to be at war.
Some of us are both.
Many of us are worried about what will happen,
and worry what the future will bring.
All of us feel sad for the loss of life that war brings.
Some have given up their normal day’s plans to pray,
or plan events,
or protest.
As we have gone about our days today,
sometimes we have thought, “Oh my, we really are at war!”
and sometimes we have forgotten all about it.
And then later the thoughts return.
We think about all the soldiers in the armies,
theirs and ours.
And how they are really just people.
People with families.
And it is hard not to feel sad.
We think about all the other people who will be affected by the war.
And how they are really just people.
People with families,
and it is hard not to feel sad.
We wish that they stay safe.
There are so many thoughts and feelings inside us.
They are bouncing about,
not knowing where to go,
or what to do.
And so we come here,
to look at each other,
to hold hands,
to feel the comfort of each other,
to share a hug,
to affirm that in the face of war,
there is still life.
There is this still:
all of us,
who care deeply.
When we come together
we feel the strength of being together.
We feel the softness of each other’s love.
We feel the love of each others compassion.
We find we long for a time
when we can be still for a moment,
let the silence carry us,
and listen to the spirit deep inside us,
find true harmony.
(The end of this prayer would be followed by singing
"Find a Stillness" - #352 in "Singing the Living Tradition"
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