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I would close my eyes, breathe deeply and blow…so many prayers for so many years were left at Your feet. Petitioning. Pleading. Finally, resigning…not giving up, mind you, resigning. Resigning to rest in the knowledge that You know more than me and that’s good enough. You created me…you know how desperately I wanted to be a mother.
In perfect timing, you brought, Isabella Noel (fist beautiful gift) then Sophie Claire (clear wisdom). Mother’s Day will always remind me of the road I’ve traveled. I am truly, truly, blessed beyond measure.
Tibetan prayer flags marking a cliff 700m above the ocean. It goes steep down from this ridge. A fantastic, trippy viewpoint above Valle del Rey.
These prayer flags are very far from home...
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Available for prayer, at the synagogue. Many people turned out, yesterday, for an interfaith event. More details in photos below, on my photostream.
Members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry:
SM Adele Bandurski, S Alexandra Marie Kolat, SM Rosita Brennan, SM Carmeline Kowalski, SM Pontia Zdzichowska, SM Fides Milwicz. Missing from the picture is SM Angela Machowski.
healing prayer rock found in the center of the Labyrinth at Ghost Ranch. Inspired the haiku found in red Ravine post, prayer to ghost ranch labyrinth haiku.
As the temple was under renovation, all the big statues had been moved outside and were inside sitting in a temporary glassed-in shelter.
This pillow (for kneeling while praying) was sitting in front of the glassed-in shelter so that pilgrims could still pray while the construction work was under way.
Raquel e Oséias caminham pelos corredores vazios do pavilhão 4 da antiga Prisão Provisória do Ahu. As grades das portas foram removidas. As orações ficaram no interior de uma cela.
Raquel and Oséias walk the empty corridors of Cellblock 4, in the old Ahu prison. The cell doors have been removed. The prayers remained inside one of the cells.
The Bhutanese government has warned its citizens not to cut down thousands of young trees every year to make poles for hoisting Buddhist prayer flags.
It said that the felling of trees is a threat to the tiny kingdom's beauty and undermines the government's duty to promote "Gross National Happiness".
The flags are flown by Himalayan Buddhists to help the dead find the right path in their next life.
They believe that the more flag poles put up for the departed the better.
Buddhist monks say fresh poles must be used each time.
Government figures show that between June 2007 to June 2008, 60,178 trees - about 165 every day - were felled to meet the demand for poles.
About 550 trees were felled daily for other uses.
'Merit earned'
"There's an immense pressure on the forest," forestry department spokesman Gopal Mahat told the Kuensel newspaper.
The government has a constitutional duty to protect forestry
"We can't stop granting permits, especially for important religious rites because it involves sentiments," he said. "The demand is for straight, young trees, which have the potential of becoming crop trees."
Many Bhutanese Buddhists believe that the ideal number of prayer flags for deceased people is 108, preferably made from freshly cut trees.
"If you reuse an old flag pole, you aren't putting in enough effort, which means the merit earned is compromised," Buddhist monk Gyem Tshering told Kuensel. "Ideally, you should hoist 108 flags, but if you can afford more, it'll help the dead find the right path."
Officials warn that this approach means that most of Bhutan's forest will be gone within the next 20 years and that trees are already being cut down deeper and deeper within forests.
The problem has become so serious that forestry officers in the capital Thimpu have restricted the number of prayer flags posts to 29.
Plans are also afoot to persuade people to switch to bamboo for prayer flags, but a similar initiative recently launched to encourage people to use steel was unsuccessful.
Bhutan's constitution, which emphasises the importance of Gross National Happiness over Gross Domestic Product, stipulates the country must have at least 60% forest cover.
Students at IWU prays for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting at a prayer vigil for all the students of the IWU campus
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 200th Military Police Command's headquarters company participate in a prayer breakfast organized and hosted by the chaplain's office during battle assembly at Fort Meade, Maryland, May 15. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
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When i walked in i saw cloth laid out on the table with tinfoil in the shape of fish and pebbles and gold & silver thread, and paper boats with prayers on them, we had to choose what we wanted to put on this table that resembeld a river, a river of prayers and our journeys with God.
I choose to write a prayer to God and then made it into a boat and i also picked a pebble that had deep scars, but on the surface where smaller and lighter scars, this pebble was a reflection of my life and i had to give it all to God.
Bhutan, that once-secretive, still-exotic, Himalayan Kingdom, is a sensory feast for the photographic enthusiast. You could be nowhere else!
According to legend, prayer flags started from the battle flags used by the Gautama Buddha against the evil asuras. The five flag colors represent the five elements: blue for the sky and space, white for air and wind, red for fire, green for water, and yellow for the earth.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/prayers-on-the-wind-f...
This is a picture of my softball team praying before a game. I wrote words that describe each player on their uniforms to add value. It is one of my favorite pictures from the season.
blogged at web.me.com/mcmarsh22
a friend suggested that some of my photos could be used as prayer book covers... so I tried it out with fd's flickr toys. not bad, huh?