February's Peace Vigil

Although it was terribly cold and our numbers were small at our most recent vigil in February the Summit Interfaith Peace Vigil still took place. I know that those of you who weren’t with us physically were with us in spirit. I would like to share with everyone our peace prayer for February.

Let us invoke the Love that moves above us and below us, around us and within us. Let us invoke the living spirit of the peacemakers who have gone before us; Philip Berrigan, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr.. Let us invoke their spirit. Let us invoke the Spirit of Love that is lived as solidarity of each with all, of one with the other:

man with woman…
adult with child…
black with white…
Christian with Buddhist with Jew with Muslim…

Let us invoke the Love that moves above and below us, around us and within us.
Let us invoke the Spirit of Love that is greater than us, but which is made real through us -- and only though us.
Let us invoke that human solidarity that makes justice possible and through which by making justice, we make peace possible.

Let us invoke love and live it as solidarity.

Our lives are our prayers.

Amen

Adapted from Peace Meditation
by the Rev. Anthony P. Johnson
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County,
Orange, New Jersey

Our next vigil will be held on Thursday March 8^th at 6:30 pm. We will gather as always in front of the war memorial on the village green in Summit (at the corner of Elm & Broad Sts.)