[proud American in Canada]

I have submitted this article to the local paper. I certainly hope it will be published, but after thinking about it, I decided to "publish" it here on FR, because I wanted us to try an experiment.

We know that prayer works, and the prayers of people working together is especially strong. When Hurricane Isabel was still a category 5 and people were panicked, late night talk radio host George Noory asked his listeners to pray, to focus on reducing Isabel's strength. Several hundred thousand people did so... and Isabel just petered out.

Now, we are facing a war with terrorists who, in their rage, fear and desire to destroy us, are allowing evil to flourish in their hearts. Jesus Christ's message is that the way to fight evil is through love; hatred never ceases with hatred.

Most of us cannot actively serve in this war in a physical sense. So what if we focused, as an online community, on filling these terrorists' hearts with love? "Love thine enemy," Jesus said. What if we gave it try? We could pray, visualize, meditate, use any form that appeals to you, but wouldn't it be a miracle if the strength of that resistance in Iraq melted away, just as Isabel did?

[proud American in Canada]

It is Easter Sunday and I'll have to leave shortly for family activities. I will check back here, however, later on.

If any of you have a prayer ping list, I would very much appreciate it if you could pass this along. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You for posting this.
armyboy saw this movie today in Baghdad
Easter Sunday PING

[mylife]

An excellent post

[netmilsmom]

Ping for a great idea for prayers! Please ping your lists, thanks.

[dandelion]

Yes, please count me in - I will pray with you. I will pray that God will stretch forth his hand to save us. It would not be beyond reason; it would not be the first time God had intervened in battle -


The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd,
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpets unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron

[Socratic]

I shall join you in the Mysterious Reality of Prayer.

[AnnaZ]

I definitely shall join with you in prayer.

 

Both events (9/11 and The Passion) moved me to write on them as well (probably to the chagrin of many, LOL) and I, too, was overwhelmed by The Passion's demand to love as a response. Divine.

 

I've seen it three times, and hope to see it again this Thursday. People around the world are walking in to theaters spiritually blind, and walking out wanting to see even more clearly. May the new view be eternal.

 

 

I post the following every Easter:

 

 

Seven Stanzas at Easter

~John Updike~

Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the
molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved heart
that - pierced - died, withered, paused, and then
regathered out of enduring Might
new strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.
The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.

And if we will have an angel at the tomb,
make it a real angel,
weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair,
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen
spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of
beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39081

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A definate Don't Miss:


'Changed Lives: Miracles of the PASSION'

http://www.MiraclesofthePASSION.com


(TBN-TV Special/Last Easter Sunday airing tonight @ 11pm Pacific Time - 2:00am Eastern Time)



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[The Mayor]

When we indulge our negative emotions, when we judge ourselves and others, when we act out of fear or hatred, we condemn ourselves to Hell on Earth.

Amen..

I am in constant Prayer for our Troops, I feel angry, hurt and sometimes outright cry. I commit these Brave Men and Women to the Lord in Prayer.

No greater sacrifice has a man, than to give His life for another. May God Bless, guide, strengthen and comfort them all.

[Libertina]

I rountinely pray for my enemies' hearts to be opened to God. IF not, I pray for us to be victorious.

[GretchenEE]

activism bump for your commentary in the first post

[proud American in Canada]

Hi, RC. I noticed your "prayer warriors" tagline and I thought you might be interested in this.

I'm telling as many people as I can--to pray/meditate/focus on melting away the anger and resistance in Iraq. It would be quite a miracle if it just melted away. :)