Inspired by lyrics from “A World Awakening” by Richard Mekdeci:
“No more fighting, hearts uniting, all one people, all one dream. Hate is dying, Love is rising on a world awakening.
Children of one God, one planet. Let the earth and heaven sing. Join the angels’ joyous strains all for a world awakening.
One day all the world is watching. Time weaves us a common theme. Peace, our anthem, all are welcome to a world awakening.
New ideas and new beginnings, that’s what each tomorrow brings. Freely giving, we are living in a world awakening.”
Responsive Reading for July 24
“I call upon you; answer me, O God…. When I awake, let me be filled with your presence” (Ps 17:6).
No more fighting, hearts uniting, all one people, all one dream.
Hate is dying, Love is rising on a world awakening.
“Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran. When he came upon a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had already set. Taking one of the stones at the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God’s angels were going up and down on it” (Gen. 28:10-12).
Children of one God, one planet. Let the earth and heaven sing. Join the angels’ joyous strains all for a world awakening.
“In Jacob’s dream, “There was the LORD standing beside him and saying: I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants.… In you and your descendants all the families of the earth will find blessing. I am with you and will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you until I have done what I promised you” (Gen. 28:13-15).
One day all the world is watching. Time weaves us a common theme.
Peace, our anthem, all are welcome to a world awakening.
“When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, ‘Truly, the LORD is in this place and I did not know it!’… ‘How awesome this place is! This is nothing else but the house of God, the gateway to heaven!’… Jacob then made this vow: ‘If God will be with me and protect me on this journey I am making and give me food to eat and clothes to wear, and I come back safely to my father’s house, the LORD will be my God. This stone that I have set up as a sacred pillar will be the house of God. Of everything you give me, I will return a tenth part to you without fail” (Gen. 28:20-22).
New ideas and new beginnings, that’s what each tomorrow brings. Freely giving, we are living in a world awakening.