Blogging for Peace Wednesday, June 6, 2007

PRAYER FOR PEACE

O God, Source of Life, Creator of Peace. . .

Help Your children, anguished and confused,

To understand the futility of hatred and violence

And grant them the ability to stretch across

Political, religious and national boundaries

So they may confront horror and fear

By continuing together In the search for justice, peace and truth. . . .

With every fiber of our being We beg You, O God,

To help us not to fail nor falter.

Amen
---Rabbi H. Rolando Matalon

Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York, NY

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as
to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love;

for it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.