Meditation: Psalm of unity

Awake my people, my brothers and sisters;

make room in your hearts for God.

Come together as children of God;

come together you children of God.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

We are trapped in single bodies,

all wrapped in single parcels

but at heart, a single love,

one being made of love by one God.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

We do not stand alone.

We are one in our Creator, 

one in God's love, each struggling

to prove the unity we glimpse.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

See past the surface differences

Look to our heart: one light, one love, 

one will; like flames of Pentecost: 

one being with many separate lives.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

Our inward eyes begin to see

the light of our Creator's love

glow as we accept, forgive, embrace,

uniting as one, come home to peace.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

So stretch out blind hands, strain and

cling to your brothers and sisters.

See past the wrapping to the 

loving heart, so like yours, inside.

   Forgive everyone. Forgive everything. Live in love; live in God.

Suggestions for meditation
Always begin by offering your time to God: something like "My loving God, I love you with my whole heart and above all things. I give you this time when I am reaching out to you" and then a few moments reminding yourself of some of the blessings God has given you - the clear signs of God's love for you.

Read the mediation over slowly a couple of times.

Listen for Jesus' personal message for you.

If you would prefer a Bible reading I suggest John 17,20-23 - Jesus' prayer ...

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

1. Read this passage or the meditation slowly a couple of times.
2. What word of phrase jumps out to speak to you?
3. Why? Try to put yourself into those words. Maybe imagine Jesus speaking, and reply.
4. Then spend 5, or 10, or 20 minutes with those words, or the word One. You might want to begin the meditation using the breathing exercise I suggest in We have two minds. After a minute or two focused on your breathing, move your focus to the word/s you have chosen. 

Each time your attention moves away from the word/s, push the distraction gently aside and return to the word ("without the intervention of analytical thought" as The Cloud of Unknowing puts it).

You may need a countdown clock. 

At the end thank God, and return to your day.