Prayers for Peacemakers, June 19, 2013
God, grant that colonial
peoples may overcome their indoctrination to discount indigenous knowledge and
wisdom. Open minds, hearts and spirits in North America to face and overcome patterns
of domination and fossil fuel addiction. Give your church determination to turn
from destroying your earth.
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