LEADER RESOURCE 3: Five Smooth Stones Prayer
This prayer is based upon James Luther Adams' essay "Guiding Principles for a Free Faith" in On Becoming Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society, Max Stackhouse, ed. Beacon Press, 1976, pp. 12-20.
Cut into five parts and give to volunteers to read in the Opening.
Part 1:
This stone embodies our living tradition,
We always learning new truths,
we are always growing in knowledge,
and revelation is never sealed.
Part 2:
This stone embodies that we are a free people,
gathering in free will to join in a spiritual journey.
Part 3:
This stone embodies our call to create a just and loving world,
to work to abolish oppression in all its forms.
Part 4:
This stone embodies this acknowledgement;
that good things do not just happen,
but instead that we work to make those things happen.
Part 5:
This stone embodies our knowledge that there are spiritual and human resources "for the achievement of meaningful change, [which] justify an attitude of ultimate optimism.
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Last updated on Thursday, October 27, 2011.
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