By many different paths
O God,
the Ultimate, the One,
we, who came here by many different paths,
greet you and bow before you.
We were not just placed here on this planet.
We grew with it, out of it,
yet always in its web of life.
We were many things before we were human.
We were many humans before we were
‘thinking man’, as we like to call ourselves.
We are the children of more ancestors
than we can imagine, carrying the genes
of many things we cannot name.
We are part of this earth, this cosmos,
and we pause in wonder at its majesty.
Somewhere, some time,
creatures came out of all this that could
love and be kind, and recognise in you
the source of love and kindness.
Who were the first we don’t know,
and never can, but we would be like them.
May it be so.
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