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Earth's cry for their children: A Prayer for Planetary Light
"Four years after the US-led invasion, the ICRC says the conflict is inflicting immense suffering, and calls for greater protection of civilians … the woman who was "simply unbearable" to address their children's bodies (live) tomorrow morning after they tried to take them to school … The Red Cross says every aspect of life in Iraq is getting worse – a trip market has become a matter of life or death. "
Iraqis face 'immense' suffering
BBC News Online – 11 April 2007
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There can be no victory in Iraq, when the price of it is the suffering and death of countless thousands of human beings are the "collateral damage" of that victory. There can be no security, when the hearts of many more burst of grief, anger, despair and helplessness accompanied by a desire to do whatever it takes to rid the country of the "oppressor."
All that is holy cries for contempt for individual human life by all parties involved in this conflict so that precious life becomes simply an expense that is the price of war, if you add them all. The heart cries out for a greater responsibility to take – at the place of purity and sanctity in the human heart to prevail against the forces of darkness that inflame and justify so many deaths, so carnage, so many losses.
If it were possible to hear his voice, began to hear the earth crying out in protest, crying out in the slaughter of innocent – on the flimsy justification for the destruction of one group by another, the action of Cain against Abel. Because the earth takes our pain, as well as we. She carries the energies of the destruction we inflict upon each other, trying all the time to clean your heart. We would like to hear the cry of land and heavens, so, for these measures are not taken as a result of divine ordination. These are actions from the place of darkness that resides within the human breast can look away from the bodies lying in the streets, refugees fleeing their homes, children suddenly and often in the presence of blood spilled, become orphans. Except in very large sense that everything, even darkness, exists within God, it's action and a path of destruction that are being initiated in the dark, because they have earnings of human consciousness, which can only be deleted and ended with the arrival of more light.
Pray for the light to reach quickly so that another soul is killed by an explosive device hidden in the road or at the hands of what appeared to another buyer who blew himself up in a crowded market.
Pray for the light to get to oil that leads to hatred and paranoia, the need to destroy in order to "protect" dry – this type of fuel the forces of darkness are so good at the replenishment.
Pray that what we witness today will not take place in the morning and the harrowing drama human catastrophe finally come to an end, everywhere.
And in all our prayers, we must consider that what we do, we think, say, has an effect on what happens at a distance. For each one of us is part of a vast network of light and life, and we turn our attention, which give energy, waves to the benefit or detriment of the whole.
We make a difference in the pain of others by holding like ours. We make a difference in the balance of light and darkness by holding light and love in our hearts and act on this foundation.
When we refused to back either pain or light, but hold fast to our confidence and our hope, help to provide the light that will redeem the darkness and bring peace to the land.
About the Author
For other writings by Julie Redstone see
Pathways of Light
. For a spiritual perspective on world events see the Light Omega Newsletter and the
Worldwatch
section of Light Omega.
Ch. 3 part 1 – A New Earth webcast – OprahEckhart.com
