Loving the Whole World

This is a wonderful poem/prayer quoted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.  I often think of this when I am walking in nature.  It reminds me how deeply connected we are to all of life and how much joy it brings us to be in the silence and feel the wonder of life all around us--The Divine Mystery.

Love all God's Creation,

The whole of it and

every grain of sand.

Love every leaf,

Every ray of God's Light!

Love the Animals,

Love the plants,

Love Everything.

If you love everything,

You will perceive the

Divine Mystery in things.

And once you have perceived it, you

 will begin to comprehend it

ceaselessly more and more every day.

And you will at last come

to love the whole world

with an abiding,

Universal Love.