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Must Own: AMEN – Prayers and Blessings from Around the World – 1
[First posted in 2013; Source: Must Own: AMEN – Prayers and Blessings from Around the World – 1.
Do we need prayers for peace? ALL THE TIME! And the human spirit constantly yearns for peace, for peaceful relationships between people, whether it be married couples, family, friends, enemies, communities, nations! These are samples of prayer traditions collected from all over the world.
On the 70th anniversary of Israel’s rebirth as a nation, here’s a special prayer for the heart of Israel, straight from the Hebrew Scriptures:
Psalm 122:6 .
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper that love thee.
AMEN!—Admin1.]
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God is creator.
Glory be to Thee, O GOD, and praise.
Blessed is Thy Name and transcendent Thy majesty.
There is no GOD but Thee.
I turn my face to Him
Who gave being to the heavens and the earth in true devotion.
Not for me the fellowship of false worship.
Truly my worship and my obligation,
my living and my dying,
are GOD’s alone, the LORD of all being.
For there is not GOD beside HIM.
So is it laid upon me as one who is surrendered.
ISLAM: SALAT
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May the heads of all countries and races
be guided to understand that men of all nations
are physically and spiritually one:
physically one, because we are the descendants of common parents —
the symbolic Adam and Eve;
and spiritually one, because we are the immortal children of our Father,
bound by eternal links of brotherhood.
Let us pray in our hearts for a league of souls and a united world.
Though we may seem divided by race, creed, color, class, and political prejudices, still, as children of the One GOD
we are able in our souls to feel brotherhood and world unity.
May we work for the creation of a united world
in which every nation will be a useful part,
guided by God through man’s enlightened conscience.
In our hearts we can all learn to be free from hate and selfishness.
Let us pray for harmony among the nations,
that they march hand in hand through the gate of a fair new civilization.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
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This we know, all things are connected,
Like the blood which unites one family,
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life;
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever He does to the web,
He does to himself.
CHIEF SEATTLE OF THE DWAMISH TRIBE
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Weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the fringes be the falling rain,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness,
That we may walk fittingly where birds sing,
That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,
O our Mother the Earth,
O our Father the Sky.
NATIVE AMERICAN
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The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The suckling child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adders den.
They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
ISAIAH 11:6-9