War Crimes are Subjective...and Jurgen Moltmann has a say

Israel bombed Beirut yesterday (as well as Gaza, as usual) killing 36 civilians. The civilian deaths weren't surprising, considering Israel was bombing civilian targets. Luckily the US stood up for what is right...by condemning Hezbollah. Of course with the war crimes the US is currently committing everywhere, I guess we have no option but to support Israels raw agression. What a sad state of affairs we are witnessing today.

"Heavenly Father,
it is time for you to come,
for our time is running out
and our world is passing away.
You gave us life, one with another,
and we have destroyed it in conflict.
You made your creation in harmony and balance.
We want progress, and are perishing through our strivings for it.
Come, Creator of all things,
and renew the face of the earth.
In our unhappiness give us hope for your day,
the day when we can laugh in peace with all created beings,
and praise you to all eternity.

Lord Jesus Christ,
our brother on our way.
Give peace to our enemies.
Take from us our fear of death.
Make us ready to walk beside you
and to love our enemies.
We hope for your kingdom
as we hope for peace.
Come, Lord Jesus, come soon.

Holy Spirit,
we know you as power from on high
and as consolation in the depths.
We cry to you,
and you respond within us.
We fall silent,
and you speak for us with your yearning.
Come, Creator Spirit,
give us dreams of peace
and visions of freedom.
Make us inconsolable when they are betrayed.
Console us when they are disappointed.

God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, triune God:
unite with yourself your torn and divided world,
and let us all be one in you,
for it is in you that we all live and move and have our being."

-Jurgen Moltmann, 1981

Peace,
Matt

Recent Reads: Operating Instructions by Anne Lammott, The Transforming Vision by Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton, and The Truth about the Truth by Walter Truett Anderson. Anderson's book is a great introduction to postmodern thought (rather than just another lame Christian view on it). I am currently reading Jurgen Moltmann's The Power of the Powerless, which is where the prayer above comes from.