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Idea of the Month: August |
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Written by Sally Mahe
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
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CHALLENGING TIMES by Maria, URI global staff, Argentina
Oh Lord!
Here we are together again
Listen our prayer, see how we feel:
Passionate to do something that can make a difference,
Enthusiastic to share passion with others
Afraid because the challenge is too big
Called to give the most of us
Enlightened by the wisdom of a common Spirit.
Illuminate our path as we walk, we
Need your helpTouch our tongue so that we say what it is needed, our
Hands so that we give our time and tenderness with generosity, our
Ears so that we listen with an open heart.
We want to serve,
Orient us
Renconcile us
Love us
Dynamize our good will AMEN
4. You Are A Marvel. You Are A Miracle, by Pablo Casals, musician.
Each second we live is a new and
unique moment of the universe,
a moment that will never be again...
Well, then...what do we teach our children?
We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are?
We should say to each of them:
Do you know what you are? You are a marvel.
You are unique. You are so miraculous.
In all the years that have passed,
there has never been another child like you.
Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.
You may become a Shakespeare,
a Michelangelo, a Beethoven.
You have the capacity for anything.
Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
You must work, we must all work,
to make the world worthy of its children.
You were not born to kill and be killed.
You were born to love.
Therefore, please don't harm other people, and don't go to war.
If the mothers all over the world
can tell this thing to their children sincerely, surely, conflict will disappear from the world.
The world will change.
I believe that the children will surely
make a peaceful world.
And, I hope the music and the art can change the world.
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