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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts."
~ Mother Teresa ~
For Rui, Belle, Masanari, their families and friends, and for everyone in Japan.
We are thinking of you.
There are these coloured flags all over Ladakh. They're buddhist prayer flags . They're silently fluttering away all over the place praying for the place and its people. And God knows they need it in that weather :)
These six images are of the prayer book of my wife's great-grandmother, Elisabetta Petacci Gabioli Crescenzi; the little hand-written, hand-sewn booklet dates from 1900 to 1912. The last pages are used to write down the offerings made to the church after her death: "Offerings for mamma's soul." The list was kept by Evelina, her daughter.
A young sanyasi (monk) looking up at the temple while he makes his prayer, at the Rangji temple, Vrindavan.
Jasper's Moises Valenciano, from left, Nathan Leibering and Sam Hahn prayed together with the rest of their team in the locker room after beating Washington 14-7 on Friday night in Washington. Jake May/The Herald
This is a spontaneous art installation I did with a few days ago with help from a friend as we were getting ready to haul a bunch of stuff from my back yard to the dump. Gerry was fascinated by the collapsed and ragged sailing ship hanging on the fence and wondered about re-rigging it and hanging it so that it could turn. It was slow work. I kept busy. I was breaking up an old chair that has white lichen growing on it and fascinated by its beauty. There was an old frame, a long string of bangles.... broken tea cups...and here is the result. Its all in the new set, "Prayer Ship." One of the ship's sails and also the blue cloth under the stone are parts of prayer flags which flew loose and were found among the 'junk'. If you look carefully at the set you will see Wiki 3 times. Wish you could see the boat as it continuously moves. Pix were taken in last few days - nice changes in different light. Rain is predicted for tomorrow... that will look interesting.
24 pix in series, in order. Nice to click L for large and page through.
I'll add some captions later probably. The set will grow.
There was a really huge and heavy prayer bell at the exit to the main shrine of the Puh Toh Tze temple. Again, there was the customary warning notice asking visitors not to ring the bell. Not that it would have been possible to ring it anyway due to its sheer weight and it's being barricaded, as seen here. (Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia, Nov. 2013)
“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.” — R. A. Torrey