There is one great God and power that has written His laws in our hearts, by which we are taught and commanded to love and help and do good to one another and not to harm and mischief one another. That we may always live together as neighbors and friends.

Cornplanter  Iroquois

  

 

 

 

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace--that where there is hatred, I may bring love--that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness--that where there is discord, I may bring harmony--that where there is error, I may bring truth--that where there is doubt, I may bring hope--that where there are shadows, I may bring light--that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted--to understand, than to be understood--to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen.

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions  pg. 99