More prayer circles are starting up. More groups are calling for Jill's unconditional release. (See The Christian Science Monitor article for Jan. 19th.)
To me, who Jill is, is just as important as what she represents. She represents that earnestness to actually come out of one's own comfort zone to go for that higher prize of peace in the world. The prayer circles and the groups are praying to preserve a life, to comfort the bereaved and distressed family and friends of Jill and her interpreter, to preserve the freedom of reporters to have access to the stories the world needs to know about, to stop the violence..............and I think maybe to even preserve a model of a global citizen - of one who has an abundance of humility, earnestness, respect, honesty, compassion, one who goes the extra mile to speak someone else's language, to walk in someone else's shoes.
To learn another language and culture, to live outside of everything that is familiar to you makes you vulnerable. I have experienced that much in life so far. But, I know that it also takes you to new heights of understanding the power of universal love. Humility, respect and great love for one another is desparately needed. Oh that we would all feel this love for all mankind!
Below are a mix of sites for background, inspiration and information
- Christian Science Monitor update
- Prayer article about praying for hostages from spirituality.com
- Aljazeera.net's story
- Background on concern for female Iraqi prisoners from The Christian Science Monitor
- Excerpts from a weekly Bible lesson published by spirituality.com. It contains six sections of selections from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This week's lesson in on Truth. The excerpts are from Science and Health in the first section (listed by page:line number) and I found them particularly meaningful.
Science and Health
293:28
Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil.
559:8-16
The "still, small voice" of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, "as when a lion roareth."
It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear. It arouses the "seven thunders" of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones. Then is the power of Truth demonstrated, — made manifest in the destruction of error.
367:30
Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth's opposite, has no might. Evil is but the counterpoise of nothingness. The greatest wrong is but a supposititious opposite of the highest right. The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals, and truth will become still clearer as error is self- destroyed.
130:26-2
If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the supremacy of good, ought we not, contrariwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims of evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to love sin and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine evil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should
not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error should not seem so real as truth.
142:31-2
Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue.
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