Children of Prayer, Children of Peace
Rick Dixon, shares the beauty he recently witnessed while leading a prayerful retreat with children in El Salvador.
A Mother’s Day Prayer
Bless our families with your Presence, Lord God. And may our children find in our homes sanctuaries of peace.
Catch me in my scurrying
A Lenten prayer (from Guerrillas of Grace) by Ted Loder
Intercessory prayers for nonviolence
That we might become people of Gospel nonviolence, who allow God to disarm our hearts of the violence within us.
A prayer for peace in Israel and Palestine
‘Let us burn incense, not children. Let us break bread, not bodies. Let us plant olive groves, not cemeteries.’
In the spirit of St. Francis
Grant that my heart may beat stronger for love of you in the poor, abandoned and downtrodden …
Prayer for a nonviolent heart
O God, help us to persevere in nonviolence and to abolish the causes of war from our own hearts and the face of the earth.
Prayers of thanksgiving
A missioner’s prayer of thanks for opened eyes, lives and hearts.
On my way
A Lenten poem
Into your hands
O God, take me and plant me like a seed. Plant me deep in your love.
‘Pray for me’
How a stranger helped me encounter God in our mutual vulnerability
