[Oe List ...] Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace

[Nancy Lanphear via OE]

Thank you, YOU who wrote this poetry, you who sent it and you who read it.

So be it!

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:52 AM, via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thank you, Marshall.
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> *From: *Nancy Trask via OE
> *Sent: *Sunday, November 15, 2015 5:30 PM
> *To: *W. J. via OE
> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace
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> That is a terrific prayer, a great piece of poetry,  Marshall,  thanks for
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> Nancy Trask
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> -------- Original message --------
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> From: "W. J. via OE" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> Date: 11/15/2015 7:54 AM (GMT-06:00)
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> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>, ICA Dialogue Dialogue
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> Subject: [Oe List ...] Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace
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> I'd like to share with our community a prayer I wrote for today's
> roundtable worship service.
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> Marshall
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> *Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace*
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> *A** Responsive Prayer of Confession*
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> Our hearts are heavy with grieving today.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> When Paris is bombed, we all are attacked.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> We mourn for our brothers and sisters who died.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> We’re fragile and vulnerable, broken and angry.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our freedom and affluence have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our gated communities have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our rifles and pistols have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our homeland security has not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our border defenses have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our satellite spying has not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our drones and our prisons have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our Pentagon budget has not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> Our money and power have not kept us safe.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> We live with injustice and still call for peace.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> We’re arrogant, haughty, judgmental, and scared.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> We have met the enemy, and they are us.
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> *Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.*
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> *Amen, Amin, Ameyn.*
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