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January 2nd 2009 21:16
Pray for peace -- at home and abroad
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer letters, December 31 2008
By Sharon Morris
The Israelis continue to bomb the Gaza Strip after being attacked by rockets from the Palestinians. The Palestinians continue to retaliate with more rockets.
How frustrated are we with this news? How helpless do we feel in the face of it? We often respond by just blocking it out. We don't stop to pray or think deeply about these people. Why not? It is just too painful. We don't seem to have answers. We have to distract our minds from the horrible reality.
But if we would stop, think and pray, we just might make a decision to bring more peace into the world by giving up our own grudges toward a son or daughter who has disappointed us, or a husband who has neglected us, or a wife who has been critical toward us.
We still have to work at getting wrongs righted, bad policies changed and bad politicians or rulers ousted. We still need to raise our children to be the next generation's heroes who will save us from self-destruction. Let's remember to make our small world close to home a model worthy to be imitated.
( See review here at The Rationale Quest of book by Father Jonathan Morris, Fox News Commentator, on suffering - see Prescription for suffering )
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer letters, December 31 2008
By Sharon Morris
The Israelis continue to bomb the Gaza Strip after being attacked by rockets from the Palestinians. The Palestinians continue to retaliate with more rockets.
How frustrated are we with this news? How helpless do we feel in the face of it? We often respond by just blocking it out. We don't stop to pray or think deeply about these people. Why not? It is just too painful. We don't seem to have answers. We have to distract our minds from the horrible reality.
But if we would stop, think and pray, we just might make a decision to bring more peace into the world by giving up our own grudges toward a son or daughter who has disappointed us, or a husband who has neglected us, or a wife who has been critical toward us.
We still have to work at getting wrongs righted, bad policies changed and bad politicians or rulers ousted. We still need to raise our children to be the next generation's heroes who will save us from self-destruction. Let's remember to make our small world close to home a model worthy to be imitated.
( See review here at The Rationale Quest of book by Father Jonathan Morris, Fox News Commentator, on suffering - see Prescription for suffering )
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