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A Prayer for Victims of Sexual Abuse
November 2011. The former Defensive Coordinator for the Penn State University football team, Jerry Sandusky, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting 8 young boys over a 15-year period. Muc…
A Prayer of Thanks for Online Information for Those with Chronic Diseases
Miracle Worker, we pray that you will continue to help those with chronic diseases to find the supplemental resources they need for coping with their illnesses.
Fact: 45% of U.S. adults report t…
Basket on the River
By Zainab Umarfor KidSpirit's Storytelling and Narrative issue.
Almost as if it were part of the story itself, I can recall the day my mother told us the tale of Hazrat Musa like it happened jus…
A Prayer for Malala Yousafzai and Pakistani Girls
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Pakistan, was shot in the head by Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, who claimed she had become a "symbol of Western cul…
Trusting Life
Mantra
Always trust life.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist
Follow the Grain
Hindu Wisdom
The last things you read about, or think about, or see on television, will follow you into your sleep and color your dreams.
— Eknath Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love
W…
"I" is for Imagination
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why?
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
— George Bernard Shaw
Often, the most intense forms of beauty ris…
Where Growth Comes From
Literary Wisdom
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
— Diane Ackerman in Deep Play
The One Great Sadness
We can then see our own suffering as a voluntary participation in the one Great Sadness of God. . . . Within this meaningful worldview, we can build something new, good, and forever original, whi…
Feeling Fully Alive
Psychological Wisdom
Children are messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but have long since forgotten.
— Alice Miller in Full Esteem Ahead by Diane and Julia Loomans
Cultural Wisdom
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