Prayers for Peacemakers, February 27, 2013

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  Epixel* for March 3, 2013

 

Incline your ear, and come
to me; listen, so that you may live.  –Isaiah 55:3a

*epixel: a snapshot-epistle to the churches related to and 
appearing with a text from the upcoming Sunday’s Revised 
Common Lectionary readings.

Prayers for Peacemakers, February 27, 2013

Give thanks for God’s gift
to young Iraqi Kurds of openness and honesty in both naming violence in all its
forms and imagining alternatives. Ask for humility and reawakened hope of
older, “wiser” ones to listen, believe and act in new, redemptive ways.

Related Story: IRAQI KURDISTAN: Nonviolence 101

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