Theme “Peace”
Lead me from Death to Life, from Falsehood to Truth
There are dark and painful times
when I know a dying inside,
a dying of the soul perhaps,
when all my spiritual energy is drained,
when I have nothing left to give.
I need to find the strength
to move from these times
to choose life, to affirm life,
to begin to feel
once again fully
Psalm 23
A Version of Psalm 23 by Rev. Maud Robinson
Love is my shepherd; I shall not want
She bids me lie down in green pastures
She leads me beside quiet waters.
She restores my soul
She leads me in paths of righteousness for her name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
A Chalice of Peace
Today I light our chalice for those who are embroiled in conflict, for they may not be able to burn with the serenity of compassion.
Today I light our chalice for the downtrodden and the hopeless, for they may not be able to light their own flames of joy.
Today I light our chalice for those who
Go forward in peace
As we leave today’s gathering and head into the coming week, may we both find peace and work for peace.
May we be treated generously and treat the people around us with generosity.
May we have wisdom, strength, and patience and know when to exercise each.
May the community of love that we share here
Peace vigil
Examine your faith
And bring it to the peace vigil.
Recognise a discord or a certainty
And with love and integrity
Bring it in peace.
Examine your society
And bring it to the peace vigil.
Identify disruption and the many many uncertainties
And without a faith in deities
Bring it in peace.
Examine your nation among nations
Remembrance and Peace
Thank you and may there be Peace
I desperately want to remember everyone who fought and died
I desperately want to understand all those who fought on the side
And those who wouldn’t fight
And the destruction of planet and animals form everywhere, an everywhere that thought it was right.
But there are too many.
Prayer for peace
Prayer for peace
Eternal Spirit, we pray for peace in the Middle East, for the people of Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and wherever in the world war, strife and discord afflict and divide people.
We pray for a just peace everywhere, for the fair resolution of all grievances, disputes and wrongs and that just ordering of
A prayer for violence fasting
Beloved
Here we are asking
To be delivered into
Violence Fasting.
Supreme Love
With you tasting
A sweeter smell
Violence Fasting.
We are here
To care
Not fear
So freer Beloved.
We are life
Not gun
Not bomb
Not knife
Supreme Love.
Beloved
Here we are seeing
The new breathing
Violence Fasting
Supreme Love
With