A Loving Kindness Meditation by Christa Hesselink

All that was, all that is, and all that is to come: it is created, held, and sustained

by unending and perfect Love.

I am created and held and sustained by unending and perfect Love.

Great Lover of my soul – I receive this love for myself today.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to my family and friends.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to the people in this room.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love each person in my acquaintance.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to people in my life who I find difficult

to love.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to all of humanity – to the young and

the old - to those who look like me and those who don’t – to those who are very

similar to me in language, religion, and an understanding of things, and for those who are very different from me.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to all created things you’ve made on

earth, our home: the animals, birds, insects, the oceans teaming with life, and

plants from the smallest weed to the giant tree.

Great Lover of my soul – I extend this love to all things you’ve created unseen

and too great for me to understand – the stars and moons, suns and planets,

black holes, dark matter and galaxies in this expanding universe of which I am

apart.

All that was, all that is, and all that is to come: it is created, held, and sustained

by unending and perfect Love.

We are all created, and held, and sustained by this unending and perfect Love.

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