We accept our shame as the patina of our learning.

We grow through our pain.

We learn from our mistakes.

We know that there are mistakes and there are no mistakes.

Our shame is not a mistake. It is the voice inside us wishing for union, remembering something better, something higher.

It does not diminish us when we accept it absolutely.

It becomes us. We become greater through this acceptance.

We give thanks for the special gift of this bounteous light of Universal Love.

We attune ourselves to the light of dawn,

the golden orb of the sun rising out of the earth, the fresh song of the birds and the first subtle movements of the tiny creatures just before the dawn.

Everything is moving, everything is awakening.

Everything is filled to bursting with love.