We pray for the right to exist without needing permission.
We pray that you stop confusing control with care.
We pray for your lawns, that they become less lonely.
We pray that you leave room for what arrives uninvited.
We pray that you become porous to wonder again.
We pray that you allow yourselves to disperse joy more freely.
We pray that you notice who feeds the bees before the fruit trees bloom.
We pray for your cracked places, because that is where new life enters.
We pray that you learn the difference between wildness and disorder.
We pray that you remember medicine often grows closest to your door.
We pray that you slow down long enough to meet the living world directly,
without first naming its usefulness.
We pray that you remember survival is not shameful.
We pray that you remember you belong to the Earth before you attempt to save it.
We pray that you become harder to uproot from one another.
We pray for children who still crouch down to blow seeds into the wind.
We pray that you learn from persistence that does not harden into domination.
We pray that you stop poisoning what attempts to heal disturbed ground.
We pray for your capacity to return again and again after being cut down.
We pray that you understand beauty does not require rarity.
We pray for reciprocal futures.
We pray that you remember the commons.
We pray for those treated as weeds by the systems around them.
We pray that you reclaim what capitalism taught you to overlook.
We pray for tenderness toward ordinary things.
We pray that you rediscover how to gather without conquering.
We pray for your grief, because grief is proof of connection.
We pray that your species remembers humility before collapse forces it upon you.
We pray for pollinators, soil fungi, sidewalk cracks, neglected edges, and all life thriving beyond your systems of management.
We pray not for perfection, but for participation in the living world.
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