Prayer of Many Colors by Jodee Smith age: 50 country: USA This was one of the pieces in an exhibit called the Peace Prayers Project 2003, which was installed at the Goldenstein Gallery in Sedona, AZ. It was a display of 6 life-sized figures with the masked faces and hands of their makers, and represented our visions for peace. Prayer of Peace I offer this prayer of peace Not to anyone god nor to many gods Not to the Christian God Not to the Jewish god Nor to the Buddhist God Nor to the Islamic God And not even to the indigenous gods of many nations But to the divinity within that we all hold inside That makes us all brothers and sisters To make us truly One Family in the name of humanity. I offer this prayer of peace To the cosmic Oneness that is our birthright And our privilege And our strength that should we let it shine and show us the way Will guide us to the road of peace Not the Christian peace Not the Jewish peace Not the Islamic peace Nor the Buddhist peace And not even the indigenous peace of many nations But the human peace That has a place in the hearts of all people To allow us to truly fulfill our divine potential to become the children of one humanity. I offer this prayer of peace To allow us all to realize the truth of our existence To allow us all to discover The sanctity of our lives To allow us all to seek The spirituality of our beings Please allow us to experience with all our hearts and our souls The intimate connection to the divine That we all possess inside for our bodies are the temples of worship And our souls the altars Upon which we shall stand tall And live out the true meaning Of our existence. I offer this prayer of peace To declare a revolution Of the human spirit I wish to announce that is now time For all of us to spiritually awaken and become enlightened For the time for the enlightened few is over The age of elitist enlightenment has passed For how long do you seek to wait for prophets To come down from mountaintops And tell us what to do We all must become enlightened To recognize our divinity to raise up our consciousness And proclaim our independence From blind reliance on long ago sages And find the answers from our own well Of spiritual wisdom We must ourselves become the enlightened ones We must ourselves realize our Oneness I declare that we must all become earth-humans of the earth And not of any religion, nation, or race. But of this earth, for this earth, and by this earth To create a lasting peace on earth. I offer this prayer of peace With all my fellow earth-humans For a lasting peace on earth. ~Dr. II Chi Lee Founder of Dahn Hak and author of “Healing Society”