| | Sad..............That praying for Palestinians prompts people to tell me that "God will curse those who curse Israel".
Um. Did I curse Israel? I LOVE Israel... I pray for the land and the people almost every day.
...That loving and praying for all, and not just the Jews, is somehow conceived as failing in my duty to love and comfort the Jewish nation: as if loving Jews precludes loving Arabs, or vice versa.
Since when did Christian love have to be exclusive?
...That a desire to keep political propaganda out of a group designed for intercessory prayer is suddenly actively anti-Israel.
Since when do I base my prayers for people on which side of a political divide they fall on?
Pray not for Arab or Jew,
For Palestinian or Israeli,
But pray rather for yourselves,
That you may not divide them in your prayers
But keep them both together in your hearts.
-- a Palestinian Christian's prayer
I will try to keep them together in my heart. I wish I could inspire others to do the same.
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| | Posted 2/17/2007 1:34 AM - 6 comments
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