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Dedicated to achieving inner and world peace through prayer that inspires and uplifts, resolves inner conflict and heals individual and collective pain. - Clyo Beck And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may create the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 Quote: "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
Everything you see in your life starts in your mind, with your BELIEFS. Change your inner, core beliefs and you will change your life. Empower yourself to create a compassionate and sustainable world. Invoke God's help today. Today's laws actually compel corporations to act against the compassionate teachings of Jesus Christ. Our corporate culture needs an overhaul. Learn more by visiting www.thecorporation.com. For three years, from 1988 to 1990, at a location just outside New Delhi, in India, a single philanthropist supported a group of 8,000 experts in the Transcendental Meditation technique and advanced TM-Sidhi program. Over those three years, the major conflicts in the world peacefully resolved. A war between Iraq and Iran that had lasted seven years and claimed millions of lives came to an end. The Soviet Union’s brutal invasion of Afghanistan was called to a halt. The Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union dissolved, and forty years of Cold War ended. Coincidence? No. Peace starts in the mind. If enough of us pray and meditate for peace - especially using TM - the chaos we see today will fall away. Our biggest problems in the U.S. involve our feelings of isolation and loneliness. Our consumer and technology driven culture has robbed us of our connection to family and friends. People live lives vicariously, through watching television and work extra hours buying the latest gizmo. But things can't make us happy for more than a brief interval. It is relationships and helping others that gives our lives true meaning and joy. In fact, it is joyful and meaningful human contact that makes our lives worth living. If you want to understand why this is true, read Craig & Marc Kielburger's fantastic book, Me To We. We have the obligation to create a more sustainable world, not just for others, but to insure our own survival. For an understanding of the crisis that is looming in agriculture and what our options are, read The Oil We Eat. Young children - created fresh from the Mind of God - are highly empathetic and loving. That's why we adore being around them. Yet, the experiences to which we expose them determine whether they develop empathy further or shut it off. They model not only how we ACT, but how we THINK. Unfortunately, empathy is on the wane and there is an epidemic of bullying throughout the U.S. and Canada. The solution is to create an environment in which empathy can be awakened. Roots of Empathy creates that environment. Read how a child who saw his mother murdered, after holding a baby for the first time and experiencing its unconditional love for him, awakens to new possibilities for his life. Read this and you will agree - and write to your representatives - that this program is God inspired and a must for every classroom in North America. Empathy and suffering are topics explored by Victor Frankl in Man's Search For Meaning. A survivor of Auschwitz, Frankl provides this profound insight: a person - despairing or otherwise - must learn that it does not really matter what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us. See my blog for more on this. Christian Peacemaker Teams has issued a call for more peacmakers. Also, while their peacemakers were released, there are many other good people who are held captive against their will for doing good work. We don't know their names and they receive no media coverage because they are third world citizens. If you want to do something tangible about this injustice, Global Importune is a painless way to get involved that requires, at most, about five minutes of your time each month. See this post for more info. Relief supplies are still needed in the two Pakistani valleys devastated by October's earthquake. To help, donate to Mercy Corps, endorsed by the Dalai Lama and named by Worth Magazine as one of America's best charities. The devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina is immense and half the people affected will never be able to return. They must build new lives. Pray for those displaced with Prayer for Healing After Katrina and donate to the American Red Cross. For those whose lives have been forever changed and who must begin anew, this prayer is for you. Iraq is a painful lesson about our culture of violence. It is time to bring our troops home and pursue a different path. Imagine what would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war? Begin by signing this letter to Congress circulated by the American Friends Society which demands that there be Not One More Death and Not One More Dollar spent on this immoral war. Add your power to our Prayer For Our Troops. For those grieving for a member of our armed forces, police or fire departments, may you find comfort with A Prayer For The Fallen. Please pray for peace in the Mid-East between Israel and Palestine. We have a Department of War, let's establish a Department of Peace to help create a new way of thinking and responding to crisis in our communities and in the world. Listen to this podcast of theologian David Griffin's lecture on our obligations as Christians to respond to 9/11. Niger's crops have been devastated by locusts and drought. A million people, many of them children, are dying of starvation. The U.N. issued warnings last November that starvation in Niger was imminent. Unfortunately, our media did not pick up the story and donations were not forthcoming. Now Niger is in crisis. Please do what you can to help Niger, or any of the other nations currently identified by UNICEF as being in immediate need of food and water. Pray for those in Dafur and sign the petition sponsored by SaveDafur.Org to get the international community to put pressure on Dafur's government to stop the genocide, which has resulted in the widespread rape and bludgeoning of women and children with at least 400,000 dead¹ so far. AIDS continues to devastate the African continent as demonstrated in this photo essay. The war in Uganda is the world's longest running war. 40,000 children are on the move each night, walking miles from their rural northern villages to escape abduction, rape or death by members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Sign this No Child Soldiers Declaration at World Vision to help end the child soldier crisis. In Montreal, Gulu Walk also works to bringing attention to these children and focus U.N. resolve on doing something about it. Remember those who have lost their children. We have heard of the tragic fates of Jeremy Rourke, Sarah Lunde, Jessica Lunsford, Amanda Brown. Bless their souls and ask God to ease the suffering of their parents. With Prayer For Teens help stem the epidemic of teen suicide. Thank you for lending the power of your heart and mind in these precious moments. Through collective prayer, we are making a difference. God bless you! For those who want products with the Prayerforce logo, you can find them at CafePress. Prayerforce: 365 Days To A New Life is available at: www.authorhouse.com. See all 365 prayer titles and book reviews. The boy who killed 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke reacted in anger to a taunt. He hit Jeremy with his baseball bat. Only with Jeremy lying lifeless on the ground did the enormity of what he had done sink in. Jeremy's parents have asked people not to demonize this 13-year-old because what he did is not representative of his behavior or character. They are heartbreakingly good and wise people to be able to make such a statement in the face of their own immense grief. In truth, everyone has the capability to over react, with devastating consequences, to insults, taunts and real or perceived threats. So while we cannot bring Jeremy back, we can work in our own lives to empty ourselves of the desire to physically attack anyone. When we are aligned with God and true self-love, no one can "push our buttons" to the point that we lose control. As we are healed of the insecurities that cause such over-reactions, so is the world healed. Therefore, for the sake of his parents, and all who have lost loved ones to unnecessary violence, please join in this prayer of individual and collective healing so tragedies like the death of Jeremy Rourke do not occur. Thank you. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - M.K.Gandhi Dear God, I accept that when I feel threatened But not everything that makes me feel threatened And I have felt threatened by someone paying attention Lord, by Your Grace, You connect me now with my Higher Self. And if someone treats me in a way that feels dishonoring By Your Grace, I start a program of positive self-talk. I walk away from those who would put me down, and I stay away. I have no need to fight anyone, Lord, for I am too happy being me. And so it is. I Am A Force For Good As we pray, know that God loves you, as you are, no matter what you have done or not done. You are part of God. You are God's hand, God's mouth, God's voice. Join with God now and let God bend your will toward your good. Let these words of prayer go through you now in gratitude for your life which is God's gift to you and your gift to God. Dear God, I am one person, Through my consciousness all things are possible. Through my consciousness Through me, truth is spoken. I am a force for good, Lord. In each moment I seek my highest purpose. I am a force for good. And so it is. Amen. Prayer for the World Dear God, I affirm that Your power is stronger than any individual mind. I surrender my mind to You, God. Fill it with love. As I read this, the power of my mind is multiplied exponentially by all who read and speak this prayer. Together, across the World Wide Web of Humanity, we join our minds in unlimited power for good. Our minds, joined with You, now overcome all obstacles to that good. We affirm that WE, together, are more powerful than evil can ever be. WE, together, speak now as one gigantic and irresistible force for good. WE command humanity's collective energy to rise exponentially. WE now form a conduit for love that energizes the world. WE affirm that, as a whole, we rise out of the attractor field for war, And into the attractor field for peace. Every Heavenly Being works with us now to promote peace and compassion. Thank You for the end of strife and suffering in our world. Praise God that peace and compassion expand exponentially. Praise God that profound healing now fills all places where pain, terror, ignorance and loneliness were. Despair and hate are now turned to Love. Talk of war turns to talk of peace. Thank You, God, for our lives, our loves and the opportunity to make a profoundly positive difference. Amazing and Magnificent Creator, we are blessed beyond measure. Thank You. Our hearts leap in joy for You. And so it is. Amen. Back to Top
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