Everywhere I look I see the Creativity of the Creator – everywhere – every item in the grocery store, every car on the road, every piece of clothing everyone wears. Every single person and every single thing began as an idea in the Mind of the Creator so I let myself absorb this very big idea that absolutely everyone and everything I see began in the Mind of God.

I am so happy to know this and to know that I am an idea in the Mind of the Creator. Everywhere I look, I see the same energy that created the universe created me. I revel in the beauty of the mountain because it’s the beauty in me. I revel in the peace of the bees buzzing around the flowers in the garden because it’s the same peace in me and I let that peace settle in me knowing that, like the bees, I am creating too. I am so happy to know and see this beauty and peace, and to know and see this beauty and peace for everyone who reads this prayer.

I affirm and declare peace for all readers. This peace forms a path in front of me and lets me know that all things have already come to pass in a way that unfolds in grace. I know peace for the new Board of Trustees. I know peace for the Youth and all of the teens who go to camp. I affirm peace for all people at the Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living. This peace gives me pause to revel in grace and beauty and know the love of all those around me. This peace, this grace, this beauty is my prayer.

Knowing this prayer has been heard, I simply give thanks for it, rest in the knowing and appreciation of it and let it be. And so it is. Amen.

Rev Martha Quintana is Senior Minister at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico.