Day 11 - Dharamsala

Prayer flags flutter on the porch of the Olmo Ling Meditation Center, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2015. 7/10 rejected submissions to lookingatappalachia.org, 2015.

God calls his people to act as his hands and feet and voice, serving the people in the community and communicating to them, in Word & Deed, God's love. Part of Faith Community's action in that way includes making weekly trips to Wenceslas Square to pray for the city, and to speak God's love into the lives of the people who find themselves there.

touching the very prayer wheel that H.H. the Dalai Lama touched and blessed in September... Hailey, Idaho.

Community United Methodist Church Prayer Garden

It is always good to acknowledge and be thankful to God

Prayers in Meiji temple

Those prayer mills were clearly used a lot in the nunnery in Chela Pass

Scan of '80 slide. Taken in the Jama Masjid in Delhi.

There was a chicken coop lined with prayer flags at the place we stayed at.

Tim Dieckmann, a long-time member of World Revival Church intercedes for revival.

Lighting a prayer candle was apparently popular in the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral - I had a difficult time finding free space to place my offering.

photo was taken in a mosque in Turkey

Every morning I wake up I recite this prayer to myself, I find it very important in my healing process.

Over the past six months I have been to many doctors, have had many procedures done to find out if I can have babies. Basically I was told because of the disease that I have that if I carried it would kill me.

After five years of searching for answers (my disease is very very rare) we get the same answer I got at the beginning. It has been very heartbreaking and hard to know that for 5 years I gave my sweat, blood, and tears for something that would never change. I am no longer going to doctors, I can't do it anymore. However, dealing with the anger and grief of everything has been very difficult. Dealing with what is, and coming to peace with everything will take me a while, but I will get there.

Every morning is a struggle to get up, but I still manage to and will continue to do so. It's very hard to not get stuck in the past, and I have to frequently tell myself to start moving forward.

I am still very angry, disappointed, and upset over everything that has happened. I am grieving at this point for a dream that will be very different from what I thought.

I recite this every morning because I need to believe I can move past this without feeling like my wheels are spinning.

These prayers are common n hindu marriages and also other prayers on special occasions...

10/23/2009

Prayer

The Tawang Monastery was found in 1680 and was the first stop of the refuguee the Dalai Llama when he lfet Lhasa in Tebiet after the Chinese invention.

The prayer hall is agnificent in architecture, colour and atmosphere.

Tawang,

Arunachal Pradesh

India

A family in mutual prayer, Wesak Day, Mahavihara Temple, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

Chapel set aside for private prayer

Folded hands on a bare stomach. Some post-work in PS.

The prayer wheels contain mantras which are activated at every clockwise turn of the prayer wheel.

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)

Community United Methodist Church Prayer Garden

Tashiding prayer's wheel

Made for the Queenship of Mary mission trip to Guatemala, June 2008.

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Photo by Steven Scardina

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Prayers For Japan By Hello Kitty

Marvelously Creative Responses To Japan’s Tragedy. I Absolutely Believe That Hope Will Prove Greater Than Despair,

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With this magnitude of human suffering unfolding before us,wondering being creative or praying about anything else seems insensitive !

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is still present even amidst all the hardships and despair.

"Our Fadduh awt'n Hebb'n, all-duh-weh be dy holy 'n uh rightschus name. Dy kingdom com.' Oh lawd leh yo' holy'n rightschus would be done, on dis ert' as-'e tis dun een yo' grayt Hebb'n. 'N ghee we oh Lawd dis day our day-ly bread. 'N f'gib we oh Lawd our trus-passes, as we also f'gib doohs who com' sin 'n truspass uhghens us. 'N need-us-snot oh konkuhrin' King een tuh no moh ting like uh sin 'n eeb'l. Fuh dyne oh dyne is duh kingdom, 'n duh kingdom prommus fuh be we ebbuh las'n glory. Amen"

*friday prayers

a person's expression is something i zoom into pretty quickly. in the sea of people (there were easily hundreds of people that day), he stood out with his stare. wonder what was on his mind.

I hope this prayer is on behalf of the living, as prayer has no affect on the dead. Thankfully, every word of this prayer can be owned by those of us who are still alive!

Batting Prayers

For Aunt Pat