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Creator of the
Universe
preserve us from our own presumption.
Do not let us close ourselves into ourselves
but open us continually into you.
Let us be more in love with You
than with our notions of You.
Let us stop claiming to know everything
so that we may understand something.
Increase in us kindness.
Make us people who care
and who take care,
who venerate the truth
and recognize each other.
Draw us with an irresistible beauty!
Rabia Terri Harris, Coordinator, Muslim Peace Fellowship, New York
from “Prayers for
a Thousand Years”
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