Morning Meditation: Interfaith Dialogue

Dear God of every nation and tongue, This morning I sat across a table from a Muslim neighbor, sharing coffee and silence before either of us had prayed. She told me about her grandmother in Beirut, who kept a candle burning in the window during the civil war — not because she thought it would stop the shelling, but because she believed someone walking in the dark deserved to see that a human being was still awake, still hoping.…