An Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2008

Lord, we gather in prayer on the seventh anniversary of 9-11;
We thank you for the many blessings you have given us,
among them the gift of life;
Let our hearts be in your heart, our mind in your mind;
Help us to speak life into this anniversary and this day.

We pray for those who lost their lives on 9-11;
We pray for the families who lost loved ones;
We pray for those who lost friends and colleagues;
We pray for those who lost companies, jobs, and resources;
We pray for those who risked their lives and health and whose
courage and sacrifice lifted us through this time;
We give thanks for the grace they have brought to this earth;
We pray for the people and the land of New York, Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia;
We pray for all who have suffered and sacrificed in the wars and
politics these events were used to justify.

We pray for the perpetrators of the events of 9-11;
We pray for those who exploited these events;
We pray for all who have profited;
We pray for all of us whose participation in unhealthy thoughts and
systems has facilitated more killing, more war;
May that which has been stolen be restored;
May we all be restored to your love and your peace.

We give thanks to the millions of people who have contributed
to our understanding of these events;
We give thanks for independent media;
We give thanks for independent journalists and investigators;
authors, engineers, and scientists, concerned citizens;
Lord, protect them, encourage them, lift them up and let them feel today
our appreciation and our admiration;
They have stood between us and the abyss:
They are “the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.”
Let our resources gather to replenish and refresh them—
their best is yet to come.

Lord, we know you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power,
of love and of a strong mind;
Allow the light of truth to shine and spread; to restore, to heal; and
to illuminate pathways to heal hearts and rebuild the wasted places.
Today, on this special day, we celebrate that all things are possible.

In the name of Jesus

Amen

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  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y

    Thanksgiving Prayer By: William S. Burroughs

    For John Dillinger
    In hope he is still alive
    Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986

    Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts

    thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

    thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

    thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

    thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —

    thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

    thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

    thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers —

    thanks for laboratory AIDS —

    thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

    thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

    thanks for a nation of finks — yes, thanks for all the memories… all right, let’s see your arms… you always were a headache and you always were a bore —

    thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

  2. I wonder if for the seventh anniversary the government is finally going to tell us how gigantic skyscrapers can “collapse” at freefall rate (as the 9/11 whitewash commission and the N.I.S.T. both admitted) when anyone with common sense can figure out that the uppermost part of a building is not going to be able to “fall” into and THROUGH the remaining solid majority of said building at anything remotely resembling the rate of solid objects falling through air (barring the use of explosives i.e. a controlled demolition). Solids just cannot otherwise pass through other solids like that without something (explosives) rendering the remaining majority to such a non-resisting state. Think we’ll finally get an actual explanation? Nah, most Americans are far too dumb and detached and mentally castrated to even consider something like that anyway.

  3. “May 9/11 Truth be properly investigated and widely publicized and may this contribute to greater justice, liberty, prosperity and peace for people all around the world.”

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