Survivors being found/A GREAT NEED

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The number of casualties in New York are expected to be in the thousands.

Some survivors have been found. Six firefighters and a police officer were

rescued early. Let us keep the people trapped in the rubble in our thoughts

and prayers as attempts to get them out continue.

 

http://www.redcross.org

 

The following prayers for healing and peace from different religions have

been posted on the Advaitin, Vedanta, and RamaKrishna and HS. I don't who

compiled these but thank you. Including them below again.

 

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

 

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Baha'i Prayer for Peace

 

Be generous in prosperity,

and thankful in adversity.

Be fair in judgement,

and guarded in thy speech,

Be a lamp unto those who walk

in darkness, and a home

to the stranger.

Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light

unto the feet of the erring

Be a breath of life to the body of

humankind, a dew to the soil of

the human heart,

and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

 

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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

 

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Hindu Prayer for Peace

 

Oh God, lead us from the

unreal to the Real.

Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.

Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

Oh Lord God almighty, may there be peace in

celestial regions.

May there be peace on Earth.

May the waters be appeasing.

May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and

plants bring peace to all. May all beneficient

beings bring peace to us.

May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all

through the world.

May all things be a source of peace to us.

And may thy peace itself, bestow peace on all

and may that peace come to me also.

 

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Jainist Prayer for peace

 

Peace and Universal Love is the essence

of the Gospel preached by all

Enlightened Ones.

The Lord has preached that equanimity

is the dharma

Forgive do I creatures all,

and let all creatures forgive me.

Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.

Know that violence is the root cause of

all miseries in the world.

Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage.

"Do not injure any living being."

This is the eternal, perrenial, and unalterable

way of spiritual life.

A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be,

can always be superseded by a superior one;

but no weapon can, however,

 

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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."

 

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Native American Prayer for Peace

 

Almighty God, the Great

Thumb we cannot evade to

tie any knot;

the Roaring Thunder that splits mighty trees:

the all-seeing Lord up on high who sees

even the footprints of an antelope on

a rock mass here on Earth.

You are the one who does

not hesitate to respond to our call.

You are the cornerstone of peace.

 

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Another Native American Prayer for Peace

 

Oh Great Spirit of our

Ancestors, I raise

my pipe to you.

To your messengers the four winds, and

to Mother Earth who provides

for your children.

Give us the wisdom to teach our children

to love, to respect, and to be kind

to each other so that they may grow

with peace of mind

Let us learn to share all good things that

you provide for us on this Earth.

 

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Shinto Prayer for Peace

 

Although the people living

across the ocean

surrounding us, I believe

are all our brothers and sisters,

why are there constant troubles in

this world?

Why do winds and waves rise in the

oceans surrounding us?

I only earnestly wish that the wind will

soon puff away all the clouds which are

hanging over the tops of mountains.

 

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Zoroastrian Prayer for Peace

 

We pray to God to eradicate all the

misery in the world:

that understanding triumph

over ignorance,

that generosity triumph over indifference,

that trust triumph over contempt, and

that truth triumph over falsehood.

 

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Sikh Prayer for Peace

 

God adjudges us according

to our deeds,

not the coat that we wear:

that Truth is above everything,

but higher still is truthful living.

Know that we attaineth God when we loveth,

and only victory

endures in consequences of which no

one is defeated.

 

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Christian Prayer for Peace

 

Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS,

for they shall be known as

the Children of God.

But I say to you that hear, love your enemies,

do good to those who hate you,

bless those who curse you

pray for those who abuse you.

To those that strike you on the cheek,

offer the other one also,

and from those who take away your cloak,

do not withhold your coat as well.

Give to everyone who begs from you,

and of those who take away your goods,

do not ask for them again.

And as you wish that others would do to you,

do so to them.