Prayer for our world

I am listening to news reports on Paris as I write. Prayer, support, continues to flood in on my news feed. The whole world is responding.   I am drawn to pray for those wounded.

Years ago, I was waiting for the bus that would take me home. Two elderly man got up from the bus bench and started walking toward the bus and then tripped and fell under the bus as it pulled away.  People immediately surrounded them and I bent down to talk to one of the men as others called for an ambulance. I don't remember what I said but the word “Christ” came distinctly in thought. Christ – it's a word that means to me comfort, tenderness, attentiveness, power and peace.
I felt that and I think he did too. Soon, the ambulance came and swept them off to the hospital.

It brings it home that the Christ is right there, comforting those involved.
The Christ is here. Comfort, support, help and strength are being called for now. Love endures.

“The world needs the poise, breadth, confidence, and vision of our prayers. It needs our seasoned experience in overcoming apparent evil by realizing God’s presence. It needs our grace to move forward with compassion and our insistence that greater good can come from any disturbance—no matter how large or small.”

I was searching the internet for ideas and prayers and have posted them here. Please add your own prayers here:

• An audio chat on Christian Science and dealing with the threat of terrorism.  
• from Mary Baker Eddy: Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.

In any group consciousness, the stronger thought rules the weaker. And we can refuse to let hatred, anger, mental illness be the stronger thought.

• From Malala Yousafzai “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
• I John 4: 12, 18 If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.....There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
• “A fixed fact in the face of violence” asserts that an act of violence can’t make evil more powerful than good, and that our response to a heinous crime like this can be divinely guided, rooted in love for humanity, and based on a desire to comfort and protect each other. As we pray, we can hear God’s voice telling us what appropriate steps to take to keep ourselves and others safe, and to prevent future acts of senseless violence.

Onward and upward!
Kim

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