<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Friends,</div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Both through recent experiences and 'our daily Rohr', I’d like to share with you my wording of a current secular ‘pater noster'.</div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">Compassionate cosmos...<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">In which we live,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">and with whom we find our meaning,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">Grace us with your presence.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">Support our freedom to be love as we are loved.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">Trusting in your never-ending hospitality,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">So be it.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class="">And, as I have already shared, I love this poem by </span>Hafiz.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Look what happens with a love like that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It lights the whole sky.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feeling the warmth of the sun (the immediate sustainer of our habitat) and wanting to ‘be sun too’,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>