11-01-2013, 01:04 AM
I pray.
Not within the destructive confines of any organized religion.
I pray.
Not to a fictional deity. Not to Darwin. Not to a universe that can be quantified.
I pray.
Not to an accidental cosmos.
I pray.
Today I prayed within a Catholic church. Not because prayers offered away from sacred ground are not heard. I am not a Catholic, nor do I practice any religion.
I prayed in the presence of the holy woman who is Thomas Merton's patron saint. We acknowledged each other.
And yes, prayer is, for me, a form of communication. And not just with myself.
I remember Jim Fetzer in my prayers.
And within the same prayer I ask for love and mercy for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his killers.
Until the life of the assassin is held to be as sacred as the life of the assassinated, the assassinations will continue.
It's complicated. And it's simple.
I pray.
And I am answered. Prayed for.
God bless and love and make well Jim Fetzer.
Not within the destructive confines of any organized religion.
I pray.
Not to a fictional deity. Not to Darwin. Not to a universe that can be quantified.
I pray.
Not to an accidental cosmos.
I pray.
Today I prayed within a Catholic church. Not because prayers offered away from sacred ground are not heard. I am not a Catholic, nor do I practice any religion.
I prayed in the presence of the holy woman who is Thomas Merton's patron saint. We acknowledged each other.
And yes, prayer is, for me, a form of communication. And not just with myself.
I remember Jim Fetzer in my prayers.
And within the same prayer I ask for love and mercy for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his killers.
Until the life of the assassin is held to be as sacred as the life of the assassinated, the assassinations will continue.
It's complicated. And it's simple.
I pray.
And I am answered. Prayed for.
God bless and love and make well Jim Fetzer.