Inclusive language shouldn't make y'all act out the way some of you do. It's tiring hearing the same thing from Terfs and there not being a conclusion, a answer to their "concerns". Like shut tf up, nobody especially Trans women want to hear that. Their lives, shit in fact every women on this earth have much bigger problems than your lack of understanding of gender, sexuality or identity. Izinkinga zethu zidlula uNkulunkulu
Zulu efsaneleri, Güney Afrika’nın en büyük etnik grubu olan Zulu halkının kültürel mirasının önemli bir parçasını oluşturur. Bu efsaneler, Zulu halkının tarihini, değerlerini ve dünya görüşlerini yansıtan hikayeler, mitler ve destanlardır. İşte bazı önemli Zulu efsaneleri ve mitleri:
1. **Unkulunkulu**:
– Zulu mitolojisinde Unkulunkulu, en yüce tanrı ve yaratıcıdır. Unkulunkulu’nun, dünyayı ve…
Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Pádraig Ó Tuama
These are some of the things that prayer is. Prayer is rhythm. Prayer is comfort. Prayer is disappointment. Prayer is words and shape and art around desperation, and delight and disappointment and desire. Prayer can be the art that helps you name your desire. And even if the desire is only named, well, naming is a good thing, surely. Naming is what God did, the Jews tell us, and the world unfolded. Or perhaps naming is what the Jews did, and God unfolded. Either way, I'm thankful. Naming things is part of the creative impulse. Naming the deep desires of our heart is a good thing, even if those desires are never satisfied.
No prayer is perfect. There is no system of prayer that is the best. There is only the person praying, the person kneeling, the person walking with beads between their fingers, the person cursing God, or gloom, or fate, or whatever it is that seems to be not listening. Henri Nouwen said that the only way to pray is to pray; the only way to try is to try. So the only way to pray well is to pray regularly enough that it becomes a practice of encounter. No prayer is hollow — whether it is answered in one way or the silent way. To name the night is to be like God, speakng light to formless voids, putting rhythm and rhyme to the pell-mell that compels us. To pray is to trace the edge of chaos and find a way to contain it, not control it. Eve if the story we pray to is only a fiction, it might be fiction that’ll save us. Or it might change us. To pray is to imagine. And in imagining, we may imagine that we are imagined by something Bigger. The Zulus sometimes call God uNkulunkulu, Big-Big. My friend Emma calls God the Bigness, or sometimes, The Smallness. God of Gods. Light of Lights. Story of Stories. In whom our own chaos and creation are contained. Holy Holy Human. (Oremus, pp. xii-xiii)
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The collect has beautiful form, like a haiku of intention. It has five folds. The person speaks to God; the person names part of the story of God; the person names their desire — only one desire; and then the person praying gives a reason why this is the one desire they name. This fourth fold echoes the first two: the name and the named story of God. And then the person finishes their prayer — with an Amen, or with a small bird of praise. (Oremus, p. xiv)
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Morning prayer
We begin our day alone,
honouring this life, with all its potentials and possibilities.
We begin our day with trust,
knowing we are created for loving encounter.
We begin our day with hope,
knowing the day can hold
love, kindness,
forgiveness and justice.
A reading followed by a time of silence
We recall our day yesterday,
May we learn, may we love,
may we live on.
We make room for the unexpected,
May we find wisdom and life
in the unexpected.
Help us to embrace possibility,
respond graciously to disappointment
and hold tenderly those we encounter.
Help us be fully present to the day.
A short silence
We pray for all whose day will be difficult,
May we support, may we listen,
may we change.
We resolve to live life in its fullness:
We will welcome the people who'll be part of this day.
We will greet God in ordinary and hidden moments.
We will live the life we are living.
A short silence
May we find the wisdom we need,
God be with us.
May we hear the needs of those we meet,
God be with us.
May we love the life that we are given,
God be with us.
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Prayer for courage
Courage comes from the heart
and we are always welcomed by God,
the Croí* of all being.
We bear witness to our faith,
knowing that we are called
to live lives of courage,
love and reconciliation
in the ordinary and extraordinary
moments of each day.
We bear witness, too, to our failures
and our complicity in the fractures of our world.
May we be courageous today.
May we learn today.
May we love today.
Amen.
Amen.
*The Irish word Croí (pronounced 'Kree') means 'heart’ and is the name for the chapel space in Corrymeela, a beautiful circular place of prayer, built into the ground, with a living roof and echoes. In the Croi, we have prayers, we had dialogues, silence, and our morning and evening liturgies.
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Midday prayer
We break from the doings of our day
and make space to notice you.
You are always with us
in surprising guises.
Jesus of the flesh, we meet you in
worker and friend,
stranger and pilgrim,
the needy and the needed,
the questioner and questioned.
So when we meet you,
may we deepen trust,
deepen life, deepen justice
and deepen joy.
And when you meet us,
help us approach our activities
with presence and power,
with love and humility,
with courage and dignity.
Amen
Prayer for Courage
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Evening prayer
We reflect on the day:
For the love shared
we are grateful
For provision and nurture
we are grateful
For kindness given
we are grateful.
For the sorrow we've caused,
we pray for forgiveness
For injustices ignored,
we pray for forgiveness.
For the encounters with God today, in stranger and friend,
We bid you welcome.
For the encounters missed today,
We know that you always see us
even when we don't see you.
For tomorrow,
May we see you
in ways expected and unexpected.
We welcome the dark of the night.
We make space for it, and we mark our place in it.
We remember that you, Jesus of Nazareth,
lived through nights of consolation and desolation.
And you walked into the nights of those people you met
inviting them to justice and truth, love and life.
We welcome the night,
and we welcome you into all our nights.
We pray for those who work by night,
whose day is marked by moon, cloud and stars.
And we pray for those whose nights are desolate,
that they may have the consolation of prayer,
peaceful solitude and community.
For a peaceful night,
we pray.
For a hopeful day,
we pray
For a deeper generosity,
we pray.
Prayer for Courage
Amen.
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Day 6
They said to him, 'Rabbi, where are you staying? He said to them, 'Come and see.'
John 1.38-39
Jesus of Nazareth,
You met unlikely people in unlikely places
and joined yourself to them in friendship.
May we be like you in this way,
finding friends at crossroads and bus-stops,
in queues and crises, in kindness and curiosity.
Because we, like you,
need the company of others.
Amen.
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