The Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your 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
Where there is sadness … joy
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,
It is in dying … that we are born to eternal life
Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued
with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid,
and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power,
and may people think of befriending
one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless,
fearful wilderness—
the children, the age, the unprotected–
be guarded by beneficial celestials,
and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood
Muslim Prayer for Peace
In the name of Allah,
the beneficent, the merciful.
Praise be to the Lord of the
Universe who has created us and
made us into tribes and nations
That we may know each other, not that
we may despise each other.
If the enemy incline towards peace, do
thou also incline towards peace, and
trust God, for the Lord is the one that
heareth and knoweth all things.
And the servants of God,
Most gracious are those who walk on
the Earth in humility, and when we
address them, we say “PEACE.”
Jewish Prayer for Peace
May we see the day when war and bloodshed cease
when a great peace will embrace the whole world
Then nation shall not threaten nation
and humankind will not again know war.
For all who live on earth shall realize
we have not come into being to hate or destroy
We have come into being
to praise, to labour and to love.
Compassionate God, bless all the leaders of all nations
with the power of compassion.
Fulfill the promise conveyed in Scripture:
“I will bring peace to the land,
and you shall lie down and no one shall terrify you.
I will rid the land of vicious beasts
and it shall not be ravaged by war.”
Let love and justice flow like a mighty stream.
Let peace fill the earth as the waters fill the sea.
And let us say: Amen
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More prayers here.
This is your late afternoon open thread.
The Obama Diary 
Thank you LL. Thought I would bring snacks…
Where there is darkness … light
Beautiful. Am I first?
The ‘beautiful’ was to our beloved LL for this amazing post.
Love those prayers, the one of St. Francis is a lifelong favorite. Francis is my confirmation name and patron saint.
We used to sing “The Prayer of Saint Francis” all the time.
The Authorities should put some light on this soon, we shall see how right or wrong msnbc is?
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I’ve actually been looking for prayers like these for a couple of days. My librarian skills finally kicked in.
Well, THANK YOU! They set just the right tone. We as a country need prayer — we need to open our minds, open our hearts — to love our neighbors as ourselves .
Great stuff. Thank you.
thank you lib. we need this so much.
Lindsey Graham was a lawyer. A LAWYER. A U.S. Citizen on U.S. soil isn’t an enemy combatant and according to the SCOTUS, you cannot ignore Miranda Rights.
Jesus take the wheel.
I think if little lying Lindsey what to be President, he should run. If not shut his lying freaking mouth. No one what to hear his bull crap.
I have a feeling that professional interrogators of the FBI won’t have big problems with a nineteen year old kid who hasn’t had any training in resisting interrogation. Lindsey Graham is a wet noodle.
Meta was right. It’s not a scam.
Beautiful. Love St. Francis, and now these, too. Thanks for posting!
Miss Lindsey Graham shout shut the hell up, don’t need his opinion right now
Every Senator is a little President in his/her mind.
Absolutely!!!
little…that is it. If they, based on what they have accomplished so far, had to make hard decisions they would piss themselves.
Shalom, salaam.
So glad to be home…I was in Minnesota last week. It was snowing the last couple of days. So glad to be back in the SoCal sunshine. I have been lurking and keeping in touch with events from my android phone. My prayers to the families in Boston who lost loved ones and those that were injured. Prayers also to the family of the two men who hurt them. It is so sad that these young men choose terrorism instead of peace. I keep thinking what is happening to us. It sounds like their family came to this country to get away from persecution during the height of 9/11 and may have witnessed intolerance of our muslim brothers. I pray that there is no retaliation against innocent muslims but we know what will happen unfortunately. When I was waiting for my plane an older couple were talking and the man said “they are muslims” and of course he was not.
Here in Chicago we have had the shortest Spring, Summer and Autumn on record. 5+ inches of rain yesterday, temps in upper 60’s. Today snow flurries. Yech.
It’s due to sexual liberalism.
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I wish they would read miss Lindsey his rights.
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Damn! I just got off from work. It’s amazing what things you miss when your in the basement (most labs in hospital are on ground floor or basement). Shit I got a lot to catch up on.
where is the best place to get a timeline/point by point writeup where I can read about what I missed
try Boston.com (the site of the Boston Globe)
Priceless! Now I have to mop the wine off my keyboard!! Thank you and hope Ms. LL is finding a better protein drink.
We found an egg protein drink that she is able to tolerate. We think that post-surgery she can’t handle milk any longer.
Was over on the last thread, reading and talking to myself. I’ll just give the highlight from my comment:
Brother & family of D-i-L #2 is safe and sound. They live in the midst of the storm and have NO complaints about the way the operation is being conducted.
********YARDARM ALERT********
Yardarm is safe and sound; up at the Dells. Lousy internet connection which is why he has not responded to our DMs and emails. He’ll be back on deck either Saturday night or Sunday morning.
After I ascertained that he was alive, well, absolutely fine — told him I was going to kick his azz for failing to checkout!
Thank goodness!
😆 Brilliant sleuthing Alycee, thanks a million!!! And I’ll hold your coat while you kick his azz!!
Thank you, Chips. Will you hold my earrings, too?
😆 I certainly will, Alycee – and I want you to kick his azz hard for putting us through this worry!!!
I hope he is able to lurk…..I know he is smiling and will accept his azz whipping like a man. 🙂 I was just wondering where the “H” “LL” is Yardarm?
Good to hear that Yardarm is fine. Miss him so when not here.
Thanks LL for the prayers. I love the St. Francis of Assisi Prayer. I have a copy of that one on a desk in my music room. I love singing it. I have a beautiful arrangement for piano and voice and I often pray it during my prayer time.
Thanks so much LL for all of the prayers. A calmness and focus for all of us.
(((((((((((((( Lots of hugs to Mrs. LL.)))))))))))))HZ
Ah thankyou Alycee!
Good News!
Dear LL, deep gratitude for the prayers. Just what I needed today!
What a beautiful post LL, just perfect. Thank you!
Well, all the various divinities know I can’t make sense of all this right now, so there was no way I was going to try and write anything.
Ah, I know the feeling LL, your choice of post was lovely.
SMH – Sigh!!!!
Please tell me that’s a joke Donna, please????
Not a joke. He thinks they did a grand job this week. 😯
Well it depends on what CNN’s goal was. If it was to increase their ratings while generating lies, race-baiting, and endangering the investigation, then Zucker is right – they met their goal with flying colors.
+ a gazillion, Hopefruit.
Just remember that the CNN Powers To be……thought that 1/3 of their audience……as people of color was too Ethnic.
Oh the sweet karma when we’ll learn that the Tsarnaev brothers obtained their weapons on Internet… Wanna bet some senators are nervous tonight ?
I hadn’t even THOUGHT of that!
gah! you gotta get this from the BBC! At least someone has the news! thx Chips
Beautiful LL. To Little Martin Richard who wanted PEACE Too.
Here[‘s A prayer For Peace.
Ok, presser is on now. Back to Twitter.
Peace Prayer of St Francis Prayer: John Michael Talbot.
15 police officers injured in last nights firefight, 7 still hospitalized.
Jeesh- those kids sure were well armed!!
Not all shots fired in that fire-fight as bullets rain down were from the Two to the police………just additional thoughts. 15 police Officers injured is way too high.
I know that is not what you are saying for you are superbly qualified as a former military man.
#wbz. #wcvb #whdh
All Boston channels! 🙂
Friendly Fire?
Yes…..friendly fire.
The stay inside order has been lifted, and the T will start running again, per the governor and police chief.
To me, this means, the authorities have a good idea where he is, or where his trail leads.
Yes indeed. TeaNN shined all right. Yeah, if being woefully wrong is worn as a badge of honor for them……Yep, their glitter is all around the world to see 😯
Okay……I can’t take it any more, the incorrect use of past tense verbs. “shine” is an irregular verb, which changes within the verb for the past tense: shine, shone, has shone. NOT shined. This is basic 5th grade grammar. Zucker should know better. Anyone who uses this grammar cannot be trusted…..NO credibility. And these guys are used as examples of journalism. BAH!!!
Thanks….I do know that. I was simply using the word as was originally written.
Shine is not the only frequent mistake these days….. 😉
I was talking about Zucker…….I knew you were quoting. How many other people will quote Zucker, and be incorrect, then think they are correct because this famous person used this form. And this is why English teachers pull out our hair! What we teach in class cannot compete with people in the public eye like Zucker.
Okay….I feel better. I emailed Zucker and told him about his egregious error and gave him the correct forms.
😉
When did the press just yell out questions….what happened to the orderly handling of questions
Only Pres Obama demands that………Yelling has always been the norm…….Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, etc……..
ohhhhh,,,I did not know…well actually…Nena…I have never paid as much attention to these things as I do now…it is a shame to say but I did not…PBO has brought me into so many things….thus boosting my awareness….
Well, perhaps, I should qualify it this way….. ;)….since I became old enough to observe what POTUS’ ( 😉 I do know that there is No ‘ with POTUS) do during press conferences……Nixon to pres Obama.
Skip to 0:57 fro start of the song.
Oh my……
Can we do both?
I’m kind of doing both at the same time LL, so I’m currently making a very, very strange sound.
I know what the sound you’re making sounds like. When the missus and I were long-distance dating, she would laugh/cry when it was time for one of us to go home.
Aw LL, now I’m just crying!!
And Czechoslovakia. Even though there is no such place.
😆 Sarah Palin must teach these folk geography, Jovie.
Jovie, I thought you were joking!!!!
I think he might actually be serious……
So hard to know
Okay…..it’s time to start teaching world geography again in the 5th grade, with a review in the 9th grade. Geography is fun…..I remember my 5th grade teacher made geography wonderful. I learned so much with her. That was back in the day when the British Empire still was ruling a part of the world, and was pink on the world maps.
I bet most Americans have never heard of the Caucasus Mountains, and don’t realize that the term Caucasian comes from there…..
Well, I was a BIT off in my tweet. Chechnya is in the NORTHERN Caucasus. Along with Dagestan and the other Russian Muslim republics. Southern Caucasus is Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Such are the perils of online life.
Hi Carolyn. There is a reason that geography isn’t taught in school anymore. Not much history either.
It went from kids learning history and geography to “social studies.” Then humanities, or whatever.
If you teach kids geog. they understand where the oil and gas resources are located.
If you teach them history it is hard to keep up the image of any country that has colonies, builds empires, much less invades and occupies to secure resources.
So we teach our kids skills and beliefs that won’t threaten the Power.
Am I the only old fogie in TOD that thinks what we teach and what we choose not to teach is a deliberate plan?
No. You are spot on. Look what state determines what school books will be used in the classrooms…..Texas!
It is deliberate to control…..they never imagine all of this social media and PBO.
In 1973…..History and Geography were slowly fading away…..private schools, especially Catholic schools still do to some extent. But most of the world Do……making them more informed and up with other Nation’s sensibilities.
Carolyn, 8th grade geography was when I put the Victoria Falls on my bucket list.
Not to boast, but a Catholic education is a very good one, as long as you can separate it from Catholic dogma. Which I did.
If ever there was a time for people to understand world geography, the time is certainly now. I have to remember I went to school absolutely eons ago…….and I taught 8th grade U.S. history a long time ago too…..I am a map nut. My daughter says “Mom, maps are your pornography.” Monday I found my Boston map to locate everything, and have my Mass map out now…..I think in maps. I know that’s probably weird. I can sit at night and look at maps and plan trips for hours…..so, I know my interests are not average.
Alycee….have you gotten to Victoria Falls yet? I hope you get there!
In my Freshman Composition class I’m teaching the book Cry, the Beloved Country right now, about South Africa. They are learning about South Africa, history, geography, animals, minerals, political, Mandela……I will do my part at least in college. They are finding it very interesting.
It used to be that every classroom had a globe in it.
One Commenter asked about Our Dudette many posts past without Dudette’s appearance……..Hey sweet Dudette, please Come in and share many of your TOD DJ Video expertise. I need to learn from you…..please Pipe in. Thank you.
3X is a charm…..they say 😉
Yes, Dudette sure need some of your music to sooth the soul. Thank you LL for the prayers.
I visited my sister earlier today at the Nursing Rehab Place and her television was on in her room. I was so confused, Ihad to turn it off. Every channel was pathetic, nothing made sense. I was make up as you go, supposing, guessing, lot of assumption.
What a cesspool of propaganda. It is amazing we are not walking around gnawing, spitting and killing each other after viewing MSM.
Thank God for His divine wisdom to place PBO at this appointed time. I am grateful everyone here and thank you Ms. Chips for this place. So glad Yardam is safe. We all need each other more than ever now, more than we will ever know.
omygawd. See skoolin’ might be important ya think. I too am doing both, including shaking head.
So, John King of CNN…..haven’t heard anything from the odious tool? think its shame? or maybe I missed his apology.
More questions than answers. Lots of confusion and misinformation. I wondered what happened to the Mercedes that was carjacked—-no mention of that today. Now I hear the suspect abandoned it and fled on foot. I can’t believe he escaped by just running away. Not till late today did we hear that the 2 brothers did not rob the 7-11—–it was robbed but not by them. I thought that was what first attracted attention to their presence. And do they know that they were the ones who shot the campus police officer, who was just shot sitting in his cruiser?——which makes no sense—-I thought he was shot when he responded to the 7-11 robbery. And they just let the Mercedes owner walk away—-after taking his $800 from an ATM—–and telling him they were the ones wanted in the bombings——but shoot a police officer sitting in his cruiser? Lots of false alarms today—additional suspects, wanted cars, suspects on train in Ct. etc. etc. Lots of stuff makes no sense—–nothing about this horrible event makes sense—- And where is the wife and child of the dead suspect—said to not share his beliefs—-did they all live together in that apt.? And nothing about the missing suspect computes—-described as “nice and kind and hilarious and sociable”—and became a citizen—–could he be that influenced by older brother that he would agree to participate in such a horrific act? Could he become that radicalized in a short period of time and with no one noticing? Confounding and frightening and senseless.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the media SHOULD be reporting.
Which is why I wish they would just shut-up! This constant stream of info is ridiculous. They should return to regular programming and reporting until there is some new, verified information to give. Congress is having a field day with the attention elsewhere.
yep.. great questions. This is what happens when media just chatters, they confuse and mislead us.
Very excellent questions, dotster. And very disturbing too. Almost everyone seems to have got caught up in gungho, let’s get these terrorist bastids without pausing for a moment to ask these questions that bring out the contradictions in various claims, along the way. What the friends and the families uniformly say about these guyz (afaik, none has claimed that these guyz are weirdos or the brooding loner types) doesn’t seem to compute at all with the pictures we are being presented with.
Added to the trial by media idjits, we now seem to have a trial by ignorant & frenzied masses from both left and right (which has already claimed innocent victims and no proper regret due from the social media bees for ruining their lives) coupled with a disproportionate, over-the-top show of force by bpd, fbi and other security orgs. The whole optics sucks.
Isn’t that just shamefully embarrassing? We may have some of the dumbest people on earth in this country, sorry to say. (and they all vote R)
I honestly thought it was a joke when I read about it earlier, actually couldn’t believe anyone could be that stupid …. and then I saw this:
http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html
Oh Lord.
dolster, I know you’re serious but I couldn’t help laughing out loud.
Oh god, here we go again.
Developing …
FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign country about possible extremist ties
— @CBSNews via HootSuite
They maintain that they did not find any derogatory information about him and closed the file. FBI expected to issue a statement shortly
— @CBSNews via HootSuite
“at the request of a foreign country”? That’s the same thing that happened with the Xmas bomber.
It looks like it is finally coming to an end…….Shots and firings LIVE now on CBS news.
Reports on Twitter that the suspect has been pinned down.
He is doing this for he is betting that in 2016……..those supporting NRA dogmatic ideology would be a severe minority.
Yes he is, Nena. When he assumed office the law only permitted people in New Jersey to purchase one gun a month. It was one of the first laws he overturned.
Please, I hope they take him alive.
Me too!!
Me too, but I bet not. I’m thinking he’s a goner.
I sure hope they have him now!!
Donna I hope you are INSIDE. With all this drama in Boston, there’s a nasty storm in our area…thunder, lightning, tornado watch….
HF2 do you have tornado warnings in MC?
WOW..we were thinking at the same time…read my post above 🙂
thundering here in Baltimore.
Be safe sherijr.
thanks but so far hf, its just a little lightening/thunder and a soft rain… hopefully that’ll be all. You guys take care !
I’m headed to my basement. PG County is in a definite path!!
Be safe. We’re experiencing moderate T-storms up in MC. So far everything’s ok.
BE SAFE, you guys!
Thanks meta – I think the worst is over at my area.
Don’t you mean , wolf, keep it up ? Pathetic journalism.
Sending Those In Boston Journey’s Love……..Hopefully they will get back to normal, if it is possible.
Plus an Angel too.
Boston Mayor has indicated that the police have him surrounded in a boat in a backyard in Watertown.
Call has gone out for bomb disposal unit.
Pete Williams —–“body found in boat”
are you fucking kidding????
Local coverage:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/live-video/
http://live.producermatthew.com/2013/04/continuing-coverage-boston-marathon.html
Doves are Used as Symbol of Peace.
When Doves Cry……Prince Rogers Nelson
Look at all the people standing around in the street hoping to see some action. Crazy.
Human Beings are purveyors. It is like watching a traffic accident……people gathered to watch others lynched, hung, faced a firing squad, people would watch if allowed to see others get the needle.
Considering what happened with this suspect last night, I would go near the scene. But I hear you on the way people act.
Please, yes.
Please, yes, In_DEED!!!
Yes. I want him taken alive. I want to know WHY?
Now saying he’s still alive, fired “non-lethal” shots at him
Thank god for “well-regulated” police forces. Jim Bob and Bubba would’ve riddled the boat.
The judd guy has been excellent on twitter today.
What’s Going On……4-non-Blondes
Not good if true ….
Oh good god, everyone’s reporting everything.
btw LL. Thx for the prayers of peace. I’ve always loved the Prayer of St Francis and the others I’ve never seen so thx.
Yep. In summary ….
Dang!!! Didn’t see that you’d already posted it, LL 🙂
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Greeeeeeaaaaaaat ❗
Boston is a City of Many people….being Held Hostage since Monday.
If it is finally over…..then, thank Goodness for these people truly deserve to have PEACE.
I hope the storm has passed. That was scary. It’s the first time in my life that I have ever heard an actual tornado alarm warning sounded in my area. I’m used to seeing an alert on the tv but never heard one live. What a week??!!!!
That must have been tough, especially amidst all this other craziness. Hope all are safe now.
ABC says still alive—–yoyo reporting
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/04/19/wolf-keep-up/
checking in with Scott Pelley on CBS.