What do you for?

What do you pray for?

 

May you be well.
May you be happy.
May you be free of the suffering of fear, anger, and ill will.
May you find forgiveness for the inevitable harms we bring one another.
May you cultivate compassion, loving kindness, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
May you live in harmony with all things,
And be at peace.

 

For acceptance and the strength to toughen up to the harsh realities of life. I'm too soft.

 

To not die bitter and alone.

 

I don't actually pray. I do ritual worship of The Goddess and The God.

 

The powers that be and mother earth.

 

I can relate.

 

May all beings plagued with sufferings of the body and mind be quickly freed of their illnesses.
May the frightened cease to be afraid, and may the bound go free.
May the powerless find power,
And may people think of befriending one another.
Shantideva

 

I pray to do my best each day in how I interact with other people (within my limitations).

 

a world that everyone, each in their own way, can enjoy living. and not in this life alone, but in all lives.
where consideration and logic in the service of consideration, becomes so much the default, that any need nor notion of hierarchy, become completely obsolete.
where the desire to be feared is not romanticized, and the wonders of strangeness are.
where imagination is proper throughout all life, but narcissism is the immature thing to be left behind with childhood.
an eternity of forested mountain, and the freedom to build the strangeness of each our own imaginations.
that whatever god or gods see fit to exist, have no desire to be feared, and no indebtedness to human conventionality.

that the wonders of the strangeness of the universe be denied to no one who wishes to enjoy them.

 

May I become at all times, both now and forever,
A protector for those who need protection.
A guide for those who have lost their way.
A ship for those with oceans to cross.
A bridge for those with rivers to cross.
A sanctuary for those in danger.
A lamp for those in darkness.
A refuge for those without shelter,
And a servant to all in need.