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The Heart of Compassion By Ezra Bayda Spiritual Practice A meditation to awaken our hearts and encompass pain with compassion.
A Prayer for the Mudslide Victims in Brazil By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The Boston Globe reports on the devastation in Brazil in mid-January 2011: "Last week, a series of flash floods and mudslides struck the Serrana mountain region near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, destroyi…
A Prayer for Monarch Butterflies By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, Lincoln Brower and Homero Aridjis note the winter monarch colonies near Mexico City have shrunk considerably. Between 1993 and 2003, they covered an average of 2…
A Prayer for Slaves By Frederic Brussat Blog Post O Liberator God, we are ashamed of the persistence of slavery in our world. Help us to cherish our freedom and fight for the freedom of others. Fact: There are at least 27 million slaves in 161 c…
A Prayer for Family and Friends of Those Who Have Committed Suicide By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post More Americans now die of suicide than in car accidents and from 1999 to 2010 the suicide rate among those ages 35 to 64 rose by nearly 30 percent. The most pronounced increases were seen among men …
A Prayer about the Death Penalty By Frederic Brussat Blog Post God of Justice, in the United States, the death penalty is used as the ultimate form of punishment for heinous crimes. This barbaric practice is rejected in most other countries of the world. Su…
A Prayer for the Children of Gaza By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Guardian of the Grieving, be with the besieged children of Gaza as they try to weather the storm of bombs hitting their small walled-in community. Attend to each child with your embrace of compassio…
A Prayer for Victims and Families of the Turkish Mine Disaster By Frederic Brussat Blog Post An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, in western Turkey, on May 13, 2014, has become the country's worst industrial disaster. The death toll now stands at 301 after the last two bodies of mi…
Prayer for the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls and All Their Sisters By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post The evening of April 15, 2014, armed men stormed into a boarding school in northern Nigeria and herded hundreds of girls into their vehicles; 50 girls escaped but 276 are still missing. They were ta…
To Love and Be Loved By Sam Keen Book Review Explores sixteen different elements of love from attention to enchantment.

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