A Prayer For Peace - By Paulos Mar Gregorios

Dear Lord and Creator of Mankind,
forgive our foolish ways.
Drop your still dews of quietness
till all our striving ceases.Take from our souls the stress and strain
and let us confess the beauty of your peace!
Breathe through the heats of our desire
your coolness and your balm!Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
Restore the peace of worldIn the mercy let justice triumph!
Swords into ploughshares
Missiles into fertilizer
May wars terrorism ceaseAnd the days of peace begin!
Blessed be the Lord our God
He has promised, he will fulfill
Strife shall cease, Peace will come
Justice shall reign, joy will overflow.

This terrorism, wars and battles between ourselves first start precisely in the desires fighting inside our own selves. We want something which we haven’t, so we are prepared to kill. We have an ambition that we cannot satisfy, so we fight to get our way by force. Why do we not have what we want? Because we don’t pray for it; when we pray and don’t get, it is because we have not prayed properly, we have prayed for something in order to indulge our own desires!Into your hands, O! Lord of all, we commend ourselves, take us, break us if need be, then make us anew that in you we may be healed restored and united!Reach us your spirit that may guide our thoughts and direct our wills! Grant us wisdom to know what is right and power to do what is good!

Come, Holy Spirit, come
Come as the fire and burn
Come as the wind, and cleanse
Come as the rain, and sootheCome as the light and reveal
Convict, convert, comfort
Consecrate us to do your will.O! Thou that are manifest, be Thou manifest to us:
From the unreal lead us to Real,
From darkness lead us to Light,
From death lead us to Immortality!And now committing ourselves along with the
whole of humanity into your loving hands, we would
sum up our aspirations in the prayer saying:
Thy Will Be Done!