PRAY ALWAYS

A Prayer For The Victims Of Katrina and The Flood

My Father abiding within me, you said the Kingdom of Heaven

is within. You are honored by each of us and our prayer is that

all might know your strength, your love, and your almighty power.

We seek to know Thy will, for in you is perfect agape love. Our

universal prayer is that our words conform to our love we hold in

our hearts, where you abide and guide us to all truth. We

need the manna from Heaven, Jesus, the daily bread Who offered

Himself for the remission of our sins...and to recall His words,

"It is finished!" There is nothing we need to do; belief in His

ultimate sacrificial love for us opens our heart to His boundless love.

In His greatest hour of agony, He cried out "Forgive them Father;

they know not what they do." In our quest to be pleasing in Thy sight

may we never judge our brother, but look to ourselves, as to what we

might do as the ultimate sacrifice to make this world a better place.

How can we be the one to take up our cross to ensure the plight of

another is recompensed. For this is our prayer that we might forgive

everyone as we wish to be forgiven. There is not one of us who is perfect;

we are each struggling to do the very best we can. I know in the aftermath

of this terrible force of nature we witnessed, it is difficult to conceive the

unpreparedness of our cities affected by such devastation. It is up to each

of us now to reach out to help those less fortunate caught in circumstances

completely out of their control...unforgiving Tornadoes spun out of hurricane

force winds wiping out entire neighborhoods, leaving countless individuals

homeless, and injured... or worse, lifeless.We recognize the toll of the rising

flood waters on those who chose to stay behind... because of poor health,

responsibility for others, or their personal poverty which left them no alternative.

In this total destruction many innocent lives were lost, and we must remember

the pain and suffering of those separated from their loved ones so tragically.

Help us all to reach out and help our brothers and sisters this day, and gladly

open our homes, offer our time, our finances, our sacrifice for those caught by

the destruction of this terrrible force of Nature. Amen.