A Prayer Shared

An Interfaith Litany

We thank you God ...

For our Muslim brothers and sisters, for their commitment
to prayer and faithfulness in worship.
For our Sikh brothers and sisters, for their warm hospitality
and public witness to their faith.
For our Bahai brothers and sisters, for their genuine openness
and overriding desire for unity
For our Buddhist brothers and sisters, for their peace and
relinquishing of self.
For our Christian brothers and sisters, for their message
of love and practice of forgiveness.
For our Jewish brothers and sisters, for their enriching
symbols of worship and cherishing of tradition.
For our Hindu brothers and sisters, for their kindly dispositions and
open hearted acceptance of others.
For our Jain brothers and sisters, for their deep respect for life
and practice of nonviolence.
For our Zoroastrian brothers and sisters, for their stress on
personal honesty and striving for harmony.
For our sisters and brothers of indigenous traditions, for their reverence for nature.

For all these of every faith and tradition, we thank you and praise you, God... for their variety and richness of spiritualities, for their common quest for truth, their yearning after love, their commitment to justice and longing for peace. God, help us all, inspire us all, and ever unite us. AMEN.

taken from "Many Paths to Peace"(condensed from Circles of Peace), in the Theosophical Digest 2nd Quarter 1997