Christina Kraich-Rogers
Date: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:33 pm
Subject: joint call for healing and peace
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INDIGENOUS ELDERS' CALL:
This is a call for Global Four Directions Prayer for
Peace, a 24 hour effort to end the war and global violence. We are asking all the leaders and peacemakers to join us in this effort.
The start date will be 12 noon, December 31, starting in the Eastern time zones, and continuing through January 1.
On September 11, 2001, as a result of the tragedy, we were all one people and it is time for us to come back together with one heart, one mind, one prayer, one intention to create a more peaceful world for the generations to come and all our relations.
This activation comes as a request from some of the Four Directions Elders and Medicine People as communicated to Grace Smith Yellow Hammer.
We are requesting spiritual leaders all over the globe to call their people together in their sacred spaces so that all people, all colors, all directions are included in this effort.
With all the devastation of war and escalation of terror and environmental harm on the planet, it is obvious why we need to come together at this time.
For those of you who will understand this, there was recently a quarter moon in the morning with two stars within the crescent. This along with the recent Venus alignment, is a potent call for an activation because it signifies both danger and opportunity.
We hope you will be inspired to join us in this call. We are simply asking all people of all races, all faiths, all traditions to pray for peace and healing in whatever way is appropriate during this time and to remember that as we link with one heart, one mind, one intention we can heal the
world one step at a time.
May peace prevail on Earth,
Sincerely,
Grace Smith Yellow Hammer , Dineh [Navajo]
yhammer@cybertrails.com
Grandfather William Commanda, Annishinabe [Ojibway]
Keeper of the Seven Fires Prophecies Belt
www.circleofallnations.com
Grandfather Martin Gasheseoma
Traditional Hopi Elder
Chief Arvol Looking horse {Lakota]
www.wolakota.org
Venerable Bardor Tulku Rinpoche [Tibetan Buddhist]
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
www.kagyu.org
Roberto Borrero, United Confederation of Taino People
mayohuacan@yahoo.com
Grandmother Sara Smith
Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario Canada
nyaweh@sympatico.ca
Grandfather Henry Niese
Eagle Voice Center , North Carolina
Chief Tom Dostou, Waban-aki ( Eastern- Land)Aylnu, Bear
Clan, Midewin
tmpdostou@yahoo.com
Reverend Dr Dave Randle, Executive Director, The Whale
Center
whale@globalhealing.net
World Peace Prayer Society
www.worldpeace.org
Erma Pounds
Director, Arizona Karma Thegsum Choling (KTC) [Buddhist]
Reverend Charles Gibbs
United Religions Initiative
www.uri.org
Reverend Ilfra Halley
Center for the Living Earth
ilfra@wamc.org
Reverend Betsy Stang, Executive Director
The Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources Inc
www.wittenbergcenter.com
bebird@aol.com
Elizabeth Stinson, Director Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma
County
Santa Rosa, California
http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org/
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Clarke survives devastation
AP
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's best-known resident, science-fiction writer and visionary Arthur C. Clarke, said yesterday he and his family were safe, but regretted the lack of a warning system in his adopted home of Sri Lanka. Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami killed at least 22,799 people in the South Asian nation and injured another 8,815, according to official tolls. Some 4,059 remained missing and nearly one million people were homeless.
"I am enormously relieved that my family and household have escaped the ravages of the sea that suddenly invaded most parts of coastal Sri Lanka, leaving a trail of destruction," said Clarke, the author of 2001: A. Space Odyssey.
Originally from Somerset, England, Clarke came to Sri Lanka, a small island country of 19 million people off India's southern tip, for underwater diving in 1954. Two years later he made the tropical island his home.
"There is much to be done in both short and long terms for Sri Lanka to raise its head from this blow from the seas," said Clarke in an e-mail to friends seen by The Associated Press.
"Among other things, the country needs to improve its technical and communications facilities so that effective early warnings can help minimize losses in future disasters."
Clarke, 87, said that in his first book on Sri Lanka, The Reefs of Taprobane written in 1957, there was a reference to a "tidal wave reaching the Galle harbour," although it was not part of the plot. Galle, in southern Sri Lanka, is the country's second-largest town. It was badly hit by Sunday's disaster.
Clarke predicted space travel before rockets were even tested and foretold computers wreaking havoc with modern life when modems and PCs were not household words.
His 2001: A. Space Odyssey, loved by dreamers and scientists since it appeared as a novel and a movie in 1968, was just one of scores of fiction and non-fiction works produced in a career that began in 1959. In 1997, he produced another bestseller with the sequel to 2001 - 3001: The Final Odyssey.
Clarke said Sunday's tsunami damaged a diving school he runs and his two beach bungalows, but he reported no personal human loss.
"Many others were not so fortunate," he said.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/Entertainment/2004/12/31/802764-sun.html
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A Soft White Miracle...
A simple write of slight import some might say,
Just a little tiny miracle upon Christmas Day,
Beautiful lights everywhere, everywhere,
Wonderful dinner and festive decorations,
Songs sweet and of good cheer,
Wishes for all the world to be able to share,
This is the Common Man's dream everywhere,
That we all might stand in peace and harmony and caring.
Outside it was the hush of a dark night upon Christmas Eve,
Stars twinkling bright and pretty in a clear sky,
Chill to near zero and breath rising in the only cloud to sky,
Grass bare all across the land,
The Weatherman said Santa would need wheels this year,
Nor a speck of white expected.
Three days of soft-spoken prayer,
Three days of asking God for just enough,
Three days of asking that it not take from another's due.
Who would answer this Christmas wish,
Weatherman or God?
There was a quarter inch by Christmas morning,
Grass peeking from under the blanket,
Soft flakes falling all day and all Christmas night,
Outside the decorated windows and covering the flat iced pond,
White upon the pine trees and bare oaks,
Millions of tiny flakes like Christmas lights under street lamps.
God spoke softly in 2004 my friends,
We should all just listen.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
© 12/28/2004
Author's Comments:
Every word of this is true. There was to be no snow. I prayed for three days. There was snow.
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Whispers of Grace...
I see my universe as filled with joy,I have faith and vision my needs are met,
All I desire in peace and harmony,
I am given faith and riches as is the Divine plan,
According to the law of spirit,
I see truth before me,
I am the wind,
Free,
Whole,
At peace,
In health,
In joy,
In wisdom,
Loving,
Kind,
Lucky,
Caring,
Intelligent,
Sovereign,
Blessed,
Guided by Divinity,
Intuitively receptive,
Filled with faith,
I stand upon the grace of God,
Claiming the life that is mine by Divine right,
My foundation of harmony and peace is unbreakable,
This is the tree and the root of my life,
That I may fulfill my part in the Divine plan.
© 12/04/2004 by Daniel A. Stafford