EVENSONG
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 at 7:15 PM
BEING ONE WITH CREATION,
Lord, may I love all Thy creatures,
the whole and every grain of sand in it.
May I love every leaf, every ray of Thy light.
May I love the animals:
Thou hast given them the rudiments of thought
and joy untroubled.
Let me not trouble it, let me not harass them,
let me not deprive them of their happiness,
let me not work against
Thine intent.
For I acknowledge unto Thee
that all is like an ocean,
all is flowing and blending,
and that to withhold any measure of love
from anything in Thy universe
is to withhold that same measure
from Thee.
Fyodor Dostoevsky