A Prayer to Humanity, From God.

My sense of spirituality has always been based more on humanistic principles than it has been on a belief in a God in the traditional sense. I often feel like I need some spiritual guidance in my life, but settling on a belief in God (as the 'great creator' at least) seems to me like a betrayal of my own sense of realism about the purposes I pursue, these people, this world. Of course, my theory makes it seem that I think I'm too important to believe in God. That is surely part of it, and I understand this tendency is very natural, that part of the reason we conjure up God is to belittle ourselves. Though, I wonder if it's true that we don't all posses some God about each of us. Okay, I'm not saying we are masters of our own creation, and thus have the power to destroy and control. I just sort of think that this is it for me, this world, and these people. All I'm saying is...

How can I do good in this world if I'm only doing it for my own Salvation?

I walk around and at night when I look up above the clouds in silence, that's when I feel small. When I look down an empty street and everyone is sleeping, that's when I feel small. When I walk through a cemetery with decaying graves, that's when I feel small. When I see people who can't live with the opportunities I have been given, that's when I feel small. And when I realize that I love the people in my life, I feel small. I don't believe that I'll go anywhere believing that there's more to this world than what is right before my eyes. I hope that perhaps there's some supernatural way I'll be able to look after my kin when I'm gone, but I also realize that if my destiny is to end up a forgotten piece of dirt, than at least I will dissolve back into this beautiful world and live on through that cycle. And when bad things happen I want only to sit quietly and pray to humanity that we might learn how to belittle ourselves without belittling our struggles, and that I may still find fascination in the things I do not understand.