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Max Coots  Samuel McChord Crothers

J. RAYMOND COPE

YOU WHO ARE ONE

O God, we rejoice to find in our search that:

You are the Truth clouded by our ignorance;

You are the Beauty in whose light we are joyfully alive;

You are the Goodness invincible amidst and above evil;

You are the Will deeper than our own wills;

You are the Love that slowly raises the human soul;

You are the Eternal in which all that is Temporal is rooted;

You are our Beginning and our End;

You are the Object of our life’s quest;

You are the Inspiration for the quest itself;

You are to be found both without and within.

In our search, give us courage and strength, patience and confidence,

O You who are One-in-All

SPIRIT OF LIFE

Spirit of Life that is within us and about us: in each of us there is some margin of despair and hope, some overtone of creation’s song; in each of us the welling ache of life; the being and the becoming; the prom ise and the hunger; the one resurgent moment that speaks of eternity, that may pass from memory but is never forgotten.

In each of us there is some margin of discovery; some truant shadow of tomorrow; in each of us, an un-named need, a purpose brooding and uncertain, waiting to be realized.

Spirit of Life that is within us and about us: we rededicate ourselves to a higher purpose, a nobler dream, a more perfect life together nour ished in wisdom and love.