Dear Friends You may find this helpful.
It's from my friend Ken Homer who works closely with people deeply passionate about nurturing our human spirit. With much love Alan Adelaide ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Homer" <kho...@igc.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Seven Days of Prayer > Dear Friends, > > Many of you asked me to let you know if I came across anything to foster > healing for the attacks today. This just arrived in my inbox.... > > Join Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, James Twyman, James > Redfield and Doreen Virtue in this prayerful response to the recent > terrorist attacks on the US. We join with all the millions around the > world praying for peace, and for those who have been injured or killed. > Please send this out to as many people as you can so we can keep our > minds focused on peace. > > Seven Days of Prayer > It took seven to create the world, > we now ask you to join us in spending > the next seven days recreating it. > > Wherever you are, join us for the next seven days "FEELING" this new > world and praying it into existence. At 9pm EST, 6pm west coast time, > from September 11 to 18, simply feel the presence of millions around the > > world who are praying for all violence to cease. Spend ten minutes in > silence each night knowing that we are creating a new world based upon > the laws of compassion and peace. Once again, please pass this on to > everyone you know. > > A Letter from Neale, Marianne, James, James and Doreen: > > Dear friends around the world. > > The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily > lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger > questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but > > the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have > created it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate > ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each > other this way again. > > The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most > extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are. > > There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first > comes from love, the second from fear. > > If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as > nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we > will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others. > > This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What > you teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, > will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose > lives you touch, both now, and for years to come. > > We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this > moment. > > Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause. > > Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will > > never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will > > forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family > who feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them. > > To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human > lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have > not understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not > been listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do > ungodly things. > > The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all one. > That is a message the human race has largely ignored. Forgetting this > truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and the way to remember is > simple: Love, this and every moment. > > If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand > > why they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet > negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what > then will be the outcome? > > These are the questions that are placed before the human race today. > They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years. > > Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at > all. > > If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be > experienced by our children and our children's children, we will have to > > become spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to > happen. We must choose to be at cause in the matter. > > So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for > insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask > God on this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that > will cause the world itself to change. And join all those people around > the world who are praying right now, adding your Light to the Light that > > dispells all fear. > > That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today. > > Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the > beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and > hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the > > world which I touch? > > Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence > that is You. > > What can you do TODAY...this very moment? > > A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to > experience, provide for another. > > Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life, > and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the > source of that. > > If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. > > If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they > are safe. > > If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help > > another to better understand. > > If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness > or anger of another. > > Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for > guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and > for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for > love. > > We love you, and we send you our deepest thoughts of peace. > > Neale, Marianne, James, James and Doreen > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Since when was genius respectable? > Elizabeth Barrett Browning > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
