O, Great Peacemaker You make your Home in our hearts, as Loving Companion Presence. In the Silence, we come to know You; With unreserved, radical trust, our path is made sure. Bonded in Love, we become empowered to serve with mercy and justice: One with You One with All. Blessed are You, O Life of our Lives! Hear our grateful prayer, O, Blessed Peacemaker!
As the threads of fabric are woven into a pattern, so the Self as the living garment of divinity is woven out of the many decisions and crises by which we are affected in the course of our lives. Whether or not they lead to a manifestation of the Self depends solely on our response. Many of us have observed that children, even small children, when faced with some difficulty, possess an attitude which many adults could only envy. That "something," the lack of which we experience as soullessness, is a "someone" who takes a position, who is accountable and who feels committed. Where this higher, responsible ego is lacking there can be no Self.
