MASSACHUSETTS
USA
(2005
World Peace Prayer Society Report)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Penny Joy Snider-Light
On September
21st, 2005, it was my supreme blessing and privilege to
offer the opening prayer for World Peace at the UN International Day
of Peace Celebration, 2005, at the Learning Center for Peace here
in Greater Boston. This is the second year this community has blessed
me with this opportunity!
The Learning
Center for Peace is the local affiliate of the international Brahma
Kumaris World Spiritual Organization, serving the New England area,
and like the World Peace Prayer Society, is an NGO-affiliate of the
UN, (www.bkwsu.com, www.bkwsuboston.com). The Brahma Kumaris
teaches universal, spiritual values and meditation, as well as service
to World Peace. Over the years, I have come to know and respect this
lovely community, and I want to appreciate that it is particularly
impressive that everything they offer – is done so with purity of
intentions, loving hearts and a profound sense of spiritual service.
Additionally, all programming is free of charge.
Featured
at the UN IDP 2005 Celebration were children singing the popular Beatles
song, “All You Need is Love,” and opportunities to honor the essence
of Peace – to meditate, and light a candle. We were all offered gifts
of flowers, delicious treats made by this community, and spiritual,
personal blessings. Prior to the celebration, attendees were invited
to enjoy the Peace Gallery in the center – where I had displayed a
MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH banner, offered UN IDP Celebration information
pamphlets, and had decorated the walls with MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH
stickers.
I joyously
shared the following gifts: UN stickers with the UN logo, inscribed
with “SUPPORT THE UN,” and MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH; MAY PEACE PREVAIL
ON EARTH pins and stickers; and beautiful Japanese doll-like bookmarks
with the inscription MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH, from the Goi Peace
Foundation of Japan, (www.goipeace.org.jp),
which co-affiliates with the World Peace Prayer Society. Again, I
want to express my profound gratitude to this community for blessing
me with the opportunity to play a role in celebrating the spirit of
Peace at the UN International Day of Peace, 2005. MAY PEACE PREVAIL
ON EARTH!
This
is the prayer I offered:
UN
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, 2005
Dear God,
We give You this moment.
As we gather in community at the Brahma Kumaris
Learning Center for Peace
to celebrate the gifts and blessings of
The United Nations International Day of Peace,
2005,
We give You this moment.
Pausing in spiritual reflection
We join with humanity all over the world
Who are affirming a commitment in service
to Peace.
As we honor this sacred opportunity to dedicate
this moment to You,
Likewise, do we honor this sacred opportunity
to dedicate ourselves to You,
And we offer our prayers for both personal
and planetary Peace.
We pray that You will illumine our minds,
Renew our souls,
Free our spirits,
And open our hearts,
So that our lives may become clear reflections
of
Your Love and Your Light.
May we all heed Your Call, God,
So that inspired into blessed Partnership
with You,
Each of us may become
An expression of Your Divine Will for Peace.
May we learn Peace,
May we know Peace,
May we teach Peace,
May we be Peace.
O Eternal Source of Peace, Grant us Peace.
MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH!
AMEN.
Respectfully submitted in service to Peace,
Penny Joy Snider-Light
Peace Representative, Greater Boston Area
World Peace Prayer Society, NGO-affiliate of UN
www.worldpeace.org/wppsreps.html
September 21, 2005
Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Earth Spirits Herbal Apothecary http://www.earthspirits-herbals.com
Greetings!
September
is World Peace Month…and September 21st is designated each year as
an International Day of Peace. Vigils, prayers, moments of silence,
chanting, ceremonies, marches are planned all over the world by all
countries to show their support for World Peace. (www.idpvigil.com).
Our planet needs us to all to think ‘globally’, what we do no longer
affects just us, but ripples out all around the world.
In
our gardens stands a Peace Pole – one of 200,000 planted in 180 countries
around the world – dedicated as monuments to Peace (www.worldpeace.org/peacepoles.html).
Our Pole has four sides, and the words “May Peace Prevail on Earth”
is written on each side. We have chosen those words to be written
in four different languages to represent the four races of our World
– English for white, Lakota for Native American (red), Tibetan for
Asian (yellow), and Swahili for African (dark) – all united together
as one on our Peace Pole.
I
want to thank all of the people in our community who contributed to
the purchase of this Pole during the last year. Thank you for showing
your support to world unity and to world peace. We are having an official
dedication of the Peace Pole/International Day of Peace ceremony at
6:00 pm on Tuesday the 20th. You are invited to join us. Or when you
stop in to visit us, please pause a moment by the Pole to offer your
prayer or thought of intention – feel free to place an offering on
the stone in front of the Pole as well, a show of your support.
2005
World Peace Prayer Society Compilation
PICTORAL
ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS PEACE DAY EVENTS
May
Peace Prevail
On Earth
