[LS]

Start praying? :)

Where have you been?

Here is a prayer I pray daily (not the specific words), and some may disagree with it, but it is entirely Biblical and scriptural: I ask God to bless GWB and give him WISDOM, and to bless all his advisors and cabinet people and give them WISDOM, and to bless all our troops in the field and protect them. I ask that He reveal to us the location of our enemies (this is from scripture) and to keep our location hidden from our enemies.

Finally, I pray the prayer of "loosing and binding" to bind the Democrats in the Senate (and also BC and Terry McAuliffe) that they might not harm our country---realize I still (in line with Romans) pray for God to bless them personally!---but I bind them in the name of Jesus (each of them, by name!) that they cannot interfere with the workings of this nation or the agenda of the administration. And, just to wrap it up in a bow, I pray Hosea's "hedge of thorns" around them, that they would be unable to damage our nation.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Where have you been?

Well I almost turned into an atheist about 10 years ago, because of some family problems. Unfortunately my mother had views about Roman Catholic religion that was right up there with the Taliban. I'm slowly finding my way back, on my own time. This was an added spiritual burden, because I believe God is merciful, not punitive, in general.

I'm not familiar with the "loosing and binding". It does sound like a good idea though :) I have the Douay Rheams(sp)bible, so maybe that's why...

[maica]

Today's Gospel seemed to have some relevance to the plans of our administration: -

(I hope you don't think I am being facetious - So many Catholics, especially clergy, seem to have decided to act like Quakers, that I am taking this passage as a message that cleaning up the Middle East is a good thing!)

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Gospel Mk 6:7-13

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.... So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them

[Coffee_drinker]

Thanks LS for a good outline prayer for our countries leaders, and to remember to also to pray that our enemies are bound.

I try to pray nightly with my kids, and to teach them to
think outside of their own little world.


CD