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Praying For Peace
by Mary Bell Nyman |
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love this time of year when the winter starts to blend into spring. It is
like we are being teased - shown what spring will be like and then pulled back
into the icy chill of winter once again. It is the promise of spring; the
miracle of growth, that lets us endure the winter. We know something sweet
and full of promise lies just around the bend.
I feel that same sense when I see our world. We are enduring the last vestiges of fear and poverty and pain, but what gives us courage and fortitude is knowing that love and peace will see us through. I feel that the world is taking steps and waking into new levels of consciousness and hope.
We are just like a butterfly; weak and shaky as we emerge from our cocoons, and it may take a little while for us to have enough strength to try our wings. But just as spring comes each year, we know we will eventually fly.
As a collective group we will be offered many opportunities to try our new wings. It may feel scary from time to time, but with practice we will grow stronger and fly with no effort at all.
James Twyman, a peace ambassador, is asking each of us to pray for peace on Sunday, February 9. He is asking us to use our collective wisdom and intent to hold and anchor light in Israel. He says,
The Great Experiment III will be an opportunity for all 100,000 people to focus the power of meditation on the Middle East and Iraq at the same moment. Our goal is to prove scientifically what the saints and sages have always said, that prayer is indeed the most powerful force in the Universe. We need your help. Please join us and together we will shift the world in the direction of peace.
Prayer to me means going inward and focusing my intent. Some call this meditation, some a mantra, but prayer can take any form. However you experience it, it is something you can do each day that helps to make a difference. Every morning when I wake up, I look out my window at the mountains and greet the day. The mountains continue to touch me in ways I can only begin to describe. I am so grateful to live in Boulder and give thanks. I am blessed to have so much beauty around me. To me, that is a prayer of thanks. It is not formal or a written text but words that come from my heart.
Some people don't have extra money to donate to causes, or a lot of extra time or energy. But prayer and meditation is something we can all do. I continue to visualize our world as whole and healed and happy. I visualize the energy of all of us working together towards a common goal. It takes no effort to appreciate and give thanks for all we have on this earth. Look at all the possibilities and different realities that all exist on earth at the same time. You can live in a rain forest, a bustling city, a farm, high in the mountains, or deep in a jungle. When we visualize world peace, it is so each reality can exist along side each other. The time for having harmony and respect for one another has come. Join us on Sunday, February. 9, in appreciation of our planet. Namaste.
-Rev. Mary Bell Nyman
