Our prayers for all animals continue to circle the earth, to
uplift humanity's consciousness, and to bless the animals themselves.
Thank you for joining people around the world who are praying this
prayer in many different languages but all with the same love:
"COMPASSION ENCIRCLES THE EARTH FOR ALL BEINGS EVERYWHERE"
Harvest Double-Talk
Hello from Judy Carman: As I was harvesting tomatoes from my
garden today, it occurred to me that many farmers, ranchers, fishermen,
and hunters refer to killing animals as “harvesting.” Deers,
ducks, cows, pigs, chickens, and especially fish are all “harvested”
either to be eaten or used in some gruesome way. Why would
they call that harvesting? I think the word harvest brings to
mind reaping the beautiful, colorful, life-giving plants that we have
sown. Each plant carries within it the seeds of the next season
of plants to be sown and sown again. So to use that word to refer
to animals who suffer terribly in the process of being “harvested” and
who have no seeds to be planted once again in the soft garden soil, is
to attempt to numb us all to the deadly truth. I imagine it helps those
who are directly involved in the killing to numb themselves as well.
Harvest of Kindness Prayer
As we enter this season of gratitude for the harvest of plants in all
their rainbow colors, let us send loving comfort to the animals who are
so brutally killed as if they are unfeeling products useful only to
gain a profit; and let us also send the Light of Truth to all those who
continue to kill animals for profit and to those who purchase
them. The season of harvest is a time to reap what we sow.
The true harvest that they are reaping is violence that continues to
harm them and the earth. Divine Intelligence, Divine Love—we give
thanks for this beautiful blue-green planet upon which we live and for
the bounty of plants that sustain us. We ask and see Divine
Wisdom and Grace encircling each person who is involved in killing and
eating animals. We see each of them, one by one, looking into the
eyes of an animal near them. The hardness around their hearts,
the false words that try to veil the truth, the ignorance of the
violence they are reaping—all falls away and their hearts are set free
to love the animals as is their true destiny. We also offer
profound love and gratitude to every single animal on earth—we are here
for you. And we will not give up until you are all free from human
oppression. It is then that humanity will at last harvest kindness and
live in peace with all of you.
With Love, peace, and gratitude from Judy, and Will, Madeleine, and the Circle of Compassion team.
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May this music of liberation and respect for all life bring us closer than
we’ve ever been to a world of peace for all beings everywhere.
Please visit the website www.circleofcompassion.org often to see updates and special prayers,
and also to join in our "A prayer a day for animals" which features a prayer for a different group of animals each day of the week.
It is also a place to send ideas or prayer requests.
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