<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>That is a terrific prayer, a great piece of poetry, Marshall, thanks for sharing it. </div><div>Nancy Trask</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "W. J. via OE" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> </div><div>Date: 11/15/2015 7:54 AM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@wedgeblade.net>, ICA Dialogue Dialogue <ica-dialogue@igc.topica.com> </div><div>Subject: [Oe List ...] Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace </div><div><br></div></div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16571">I'd like to share with our community a prayer I wrote for today's roundtable worship service.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16851" dir="ltr">Marshall</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16577">
</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16586" class="" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16588" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Longing for Peace When There Is No Peace</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16590" class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16592" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16594" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">A</span>
Responsive Prayer of Confession</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16596" class=""> </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16598" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our hearts are heavy with
grieving today.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16600" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16602" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16604" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16606" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16608" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">When Paris is bombed, we all are
attacked.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16610" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16612" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16614" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16616" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16618" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">We mourn for our brothers and
sisters who died.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16620" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16622" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16624" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16626" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16628" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">We’re fragile and vulnerable,
broken and angry.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16630" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16632" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16634" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16636" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16638" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our freedom and affluence have
not kept us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16640" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16642" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16644" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16646" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16648" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our gated communities have not
kept us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16650" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16652" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16654" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16656" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16658" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our rifles and pistols have not
kept us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16660" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16662" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16664" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16666" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16668" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our homeland security has not
kept us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16670" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16672" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16674" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16676" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16678" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our border defenses have not kept
us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16680" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16682" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16684" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16686" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16688" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our satellite spying has not kept
us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16690" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16692" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16694" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16696" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16698" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our drones and our prisons have
not kept us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16700" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16702" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16704" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16706" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16708" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our Pentagon budget has not kept
us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16710" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16712" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16714" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16716" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16718" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">Our money and power have not kept
us safe.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16720" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16722" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16724" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16726" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16728" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">We live with injustice and still
call for peace.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16730" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16732" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16734" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16736" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16738" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">We’re arrogant, haughty, judgmental,
and scared.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16740" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16742" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16744" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16746" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16748" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt">We have met the enemy, and they
are us.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16750" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16752" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deliver us now from our hatred and fear.</b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16754" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16756" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16758" class="" style="margin-left:99.0pt"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447557234559_16760" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Amen, Amin, Ameyn.</b></div><div dir="ltr">
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