Sacrifice, Loss, and Hope at Ground Zero
♥ Pass your memory,
♥ Through the flame of compassion,
♥ To know the heart’s will.
Thomastwo Haiku (5-7-5)
♥ Through the flame of compassion,
♥ To know the heart’s will.
Thomastwo Haiku (5-7-5)
♥ Don’t be discourage
♥ Open your mind to changes
♥ Your heart understands
Thomastwo Haiku (5-7-5)
♥ Open your mind to changes
♥ Your heart understands
Thomastwo Haiku (5-7-5)
"Do not allow the magnitude of the infinity, the immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the matchless character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the Father is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you, and in him do we all literally move, actually live, and veritably have our being."
Urantia Book (12.7.12) URANTIA BOOK PAGE
Urantia Book (12.7.12) URANTIA BOOK PAGE
Thousands gathered Tuesday (9-11-12) in New York, suburban Washington and rural Pennsylvania to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
9-11-2012 NBC’s Ron Allen reports.
9-11-2012 NBC’s Ron Allen reports.
A conversation at the edge of Ground Zero with The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, and theologian Serene Jones. From St. Paul's Chapel of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church at the edge of Ground Zero on September 6, 2011, a decade after 9/11.
Mother Teresa's words of Love
♥ Reason will open
♥ Your journey of compassion
♥ Through your heart center
Thomastwo (Haiku 5-7-5)
♥ Your journey of compassion
♥ Through your heart center
Thomastwo (Haiku 5-7-5)
Mattie Stepanek was 11 years old when he wrote this poem on the day of 9-11.
Mattie J.T. Stepanek © September 11, 2001
Mattie J.T. Stepanek © September 11, 2001
For Our World
by Mattie Stepanek
We need to stop. Just stop. Stop for a moment.
Before anybody
Says or does anything That may hurt anyone else. We need to be silent. Just silent. Silent for a moment.
Before we forever lose
The blessing of songs That grow in our hearts. We need to notice. Just notice. Notice for a moment.
Before the future slips away
Into ashes and dust of humility. Stop, be silent, and notice.
In so many ways, we are the same.
Our differences are unique treasures. We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts To nurture, to offer, to accept. We need to be. Just be. Be for a moment.
Kind and gentle, innocent and trusting,
Like children and lambs, Never judging or vengeful Like the judging and vengeful. .And now,
Let us pray,
Differently, yet together, Before there is no earth, no life, No chance for peace.
by Mattie Stepanek
We need to stop. Just stop. Stop for a moment.
Before anybody
Says or does anything That may hurt anyone else. We need to be silent. Just silent. Silent for a moment.
Before we forever lose
The blessing of songs That grow in our hearts. We need to notice. Just notice. Notice for a moment.
Before the future slips away
Into ashes and dust of humility. Stop, be silent, and notice.
In so many ways, we are the same.
Our differences are unique treasures. We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts To nurture, to offer, to accept. We need to be. Just be. Be for a moment.
Kind and gentle, innocent and trusting,
Like children and lambs, Never judging or vengeful Like the judging and vengeful. .And now,
Let us pray,
Differently, yet together, Before there is no earth, no life, No chance for peace.
Four ways
9/11 changed America’s attitude toward religion
Read the full Article at this link
By John Blake, CNN
Read the full Article at this link
By John Blake, CNN
Nothing is ever lost, perhaps the memory becomes frailed, but the essence continues to grow future generations, as 9/11 does with tears and grief. We lost too many loving people in that destruction, that our senses are blinded by our needs to know, understand and comprehend. Things that we cherished were taken away from us in an instant flash of fire. And as we looked through the debris of our 9/11 disasters, we ask for guidance and wisdom. Our boat has been cast adrift from its normal moorings and we need to chart our own course back home.
We are hindered and hobbled by our sense of rage and revenge. Yet, anger will not bring us the freedom to reflect. Hatred may bring retribution but without resolution and without redemption. Our spirit longs for closure; our soul cries for wisdom.
I have assembled on these pages wise and thoughtful women and men whom you may use as guides to your own inner-most pilgrimage to wisdom, your wisdom.
A spiritual pilgrimage was thrust upon all of us on that fateful morning of 9/11/2001. Explore the teachings of Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Amma, Martin Luther King, the Urantia Book, Krista Tippert and others. And most of all, ask for spiritual guidance from the Holy Spirit/our Heavenly Father and begin your journey with the knowledge that the Universal Creator Father mourns as deeply as you do for His children's children who were lost on that September day, 9/11.
We are hindered and hobbled by our sense of rage and revenge. Yet, anger will not bring us the freedom to reflect. Hatred may bring retribution but without resolution and without redemption. Our spirit longs for closure; our soul cries for wisdom.
I have assembled on these pages wise and thoughtful women and men whom you may use as guides to your own inner-most pilgrimage to wisdom, your wisdom.
A spiritual pilgrimage was thrust upon all of us on that fateful morning of 9/11/2001. Explore the teachings of Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Amma, Martin Luther King, the Urantia Book, Krista Tippert and others. And most of all, ask for spiritual guidance from the Holy Spirit/our Heavenly Father and begin your journey with the knowledge that the Universal Creator Father mourns as deeply as you do for His children's children who were lost on that September day, 9/11.
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