This is the wonderful prayer that Marianne Williamson shared with us at the end of her presentation at EcoTuesday in San Francisco on September 22nd.

"Dear God (or by whatever name you call to God)...we give praise and thanks to all the souls who have lived on earth and brough humanity from darkness to light. We give thanks that we are here. We give thanks that we live in a culture, in a society, in a country, where although there are mistakes and defects, we are even safe to be in this room. In this moment we give up whatever tendency towards whining, whatever tendency toward thoughts of futility or hopelessness, and we ask that they be replaced by courage and joy.

We surrener all that we have and all that we are. We ask that we become the people God would have us be, that we might do what God would have us do: serve the forces of life, the forces of love, the forces of improvement, so that this precious jewel that is our country, the technology, the achievements, the science, the art, the culture of this country and every country. Of our people and every people. May the goodness and the decency and the love and the relationships and the hopes and the dreams and the visions of all humanity form the fuel, dear God, by which we rise up above our personal darkness and our personal weakness, into dimensions of strength we didn't even know we had, dimensions of power we didn't even know we had, dimensions of love we didn't even know we had, so that we individually and collectively might form a bridge to a world where the water is clean and the food is healthy, where the skies are unpolluted, as is the heart and the mind of all humanity. Dear God, in whatever way love would direct, please use us. May we help.

And so it is."