Jill Cornell Tarter is an American astronomer and the former director of the SETI Institute, working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She says:
Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
Creative Presence, our God, we wish to be, with Your help, wiser than we are. We thank You for those creative people like Jill Tarter, who search the universe for other life, only to remind us of our need to appreciate the astonishing magnificence of the moving, breathing world of creatures on our own planet.
Mothering Spirit, be with us Earthlings as we come together in our struggles, pooling our wisdom and our energies of hope, convinced that in the end, all will somehow be well.—AMEN.
(Adapted from Prayers to an Evolutionary God by William Cleary, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, VT, pp. 39, 44)