Loving expression is inclusive.

God’s presence is constant, but every human being has been given the strength and capability to be loving. There is no greater expression of God than to be loving. That expression crosses all boundaries and bridges every divide between people, nations, religions, and philosophies.

Every individual who prays is learning, learning what it means to be loving. That learning is incremental. It is not achieved through a flash of insight. Learning to be loving is a lifelong pursuit.

You are all familiar with many forms of love. Each of these expressions of love is but a part of being loving, for loving encompasses all that is understood to be part of what love is. You can be loving toward another individual. You can be loving in your thoughts to other nations, other philosophies, other beliefs. You can be loving to other people you have never met and know nothing about. At each stage in life, one form of love may take precedence over another, but that presence does not mean the absence of another. It is not exclusionary in any way, for no form of loving expression is truly loving if it denies another form of expression.


The prayers you feel are what contribute to your understanding of becoming loving. We say the prayers you feel specifically, for we do not mean the prayers that you speak. Words are merely a representation. Feelings are deeply personal; they come from within. It is from those feelings that words emerge. Sometimes, of course, the choice of words does not reflect one’s deeper feelings. That lack of reflection is not necessarily intentionally deceptive. It is merely a lack.