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Prayers for Ukraine are Prayers for Us All
How Do I Pray for Peace?
This is a question many of us ask every day, in our own way. Even if we don’t bring God into it. We wonder: What can I do? How can I make any difference?
Years ago, when I first met my friend James Twyman — best-selling author, international Peace Troubadour, and now an Anglican priest — he told me with conviction: “If we want peace in the world, we have to be peace.”
We have to live our prayers.
How do we do that, when we see problems that feel too big to solve?
We Are All Connected
We may not all be as influential as Ketanji Brown Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., or the Dalai Lama — but each of us is here to do our part in our own individual way. “Desire is prayer,” Mary Baker Eddy wrote in her groundbreaking book Science and Health, “and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires” (p.1).
When we desire freedom for Ukrainians, we’re striving toward freedom for all. Their liberty is our liberty. If we can’t go in person to help Ukrainian refugees in Europe, depending upon where we live, we might be able to provide a leg up to a refugee at our own border. Maybe we can’t personally stop Mr. Putin’s actions; but our efforts…
