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.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene