Dear LCC Community,

In these days as we are gripped by the conflicts at home and around the world, it can
be too easy to forget that true peace still lives within us and amongst us, in that ocean
of loving awareness that connects us all. Perhaps it can be helpful to consider these
prayers for peace.
Jewish Prayer for Peace
Let the rain come and wash away the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds held and
nurtured over generations.
Let the rain wash away the memory of the hurt, the neglect.
Then let the sun come out and fill the sky with rainbows.
Let the warmth of the sun heal us wherever we are broken.
Let it burn away the fog so that we can see each other clearly.
So that we can see beyond labels, beyond accents, gender or skin color.
Let the warmth and brightness of the sun melt our selfishness.
So that we can share the joys and feel the sorrows of our neighbors.
And let the light of the sun be so strong that we will see all people as our
neighbors.
Let the earth, nourished by rain, bring forth flowers to surround us with beauty.
And let the mountains teach our hearts to reach upward to heaven.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner

Muslim Prayer for Peace
O God! O our master! You are eternal life and everlasting peace by Your essence
and attributes. The everlasting peace is from You and it returns to You. O our
Sustainer! Grant us the life of true peace and usher us into the abode of peace. O
Glorious and Bounteous One! You are blessed and sublime. Amen.
– Xavier University: Prayers for Peace (https://tinyurl.com/2amx84kk)

Christian Prayer for Peace
O God, we are one with you. You have made us one with you.
You have taught us that if we are open to one another, you dwell in us.
Help us to preserve this openness and to fight for it with all our hearts. Help us to
realize that there can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection.

O God, in accepting one another wholeheartedly, fully, completely, we accept
you, and we thank you, and we adore you, and we love you with our whole being,
because our being is your being, our spirit is rooted in your spirit. Fill us then with
love, and let us be bound together with love as we go our diverse ways, united in
this one spirit which makes you present in the world, and which makes you witness
to the ultimate reality that is love. Love has overcome. Love is victorious.
– Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
 

Brave Enough to Be It – Amanda Gorman, 1st & last verses of “The Hill We Climb”
When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade...
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
May it be so.

Peace and blessi

 

Peace and blessings,

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Lee

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