The following is from a prayer given by Paul Ferinni at the Humanity’s Team’s Gathering in New York:

Father mother god, help me to feel my oneness with you. Help me to feel my equality with my brothers and sisters….. Help me to recognize my judgments and to look within for corrections…. Help me to give up shame and blame and help me to learn from my errors so I do not repeat them…. Help me to care for my body and my family and my community and my planet…. Help me to create what is for my highest good and for the highest good of others… Help me to be responsible for my creations…. Help me to give up victims consciousness and help me to realize I am a powerful person with many creative choices…. Help me to stand up for myself in a loving way without attacking others or seeking to influence the decisions that they need to make….. Help me offer freedom to others so that I may receive it in return…Help me to reach out with compassion to these in need, in grief, under stress, or limitation of any kind and offer them hope and encouragement…..

Allow my heart to open to them and allow my eyes to see beyond the behaviors motivated by fear and unworthiness…. May I offer to others and to myself the unconditional love and acceptance you offer to me…. Help me to master my skills and talents so that I may place them in your service so that I may fulfill my purpose here….

Help me to step into the role you would have me play in inspiring, empowering and uplifting others…. Help me to trust my gifts and to give my gifts without expectations of return whenever the opportunity arises….. Help me to give freely and love freely surrendering the outcome to you… Help me surrender the need to control so that I can live spontaneously and with your grace….

Help me to understand and heal my wounds, so I do not push love away or block its presence in my heart and in my relationships…. Help me soften and become vulnerable…Help me to learn to ask for help and trust the help you offer me…. Allow me to heal the past so I can enter the present fully… Allow me to become a doorway for the healing of others and allow me to walk courageously through the door that has been opened for me….

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Help me surrender what is false and establish in what is true firmly and with conviction….. Help me to walk my talk, listen deeply and speak only when I have something helpful to say….Help me to understand that the friend is always with and my only purpose is to be a friend to others…. Help me detach from name and fame and surrender all forms of external authority so that I can be guided by the authority within…Allow me to know at all times and in all places that the highest good of others is and always will be my highest good…. Let all that separates me from others fall away so I may recognize the One Self in all beings….

Allow me to complete my work on earth with care and humility and return to you when my work here is done. May all veils and barriers that separate us dissolve so that I may dwell fully and completely in your love….. Amen! — Humanity’s Team