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Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 16th May 2013 God of love and justice, as we commemorate the Palestinian Nakba (May 15) this week, our hearts break with the grief of 65 years of different forms of injustice and suffering in Palestine. Though our hearts break, please do not let our hope die. Keep our courage and resilience strong, and…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 9th May 2013 God, we come to you this week with both our joy and pain, with both thanksgiving and cries for healing on our lips. Among our joys, Lord, is the Church of Scotland’s recently-issued theological report challenging the exclusiveness of many interpretations of the Bible and expressing that neither the Jews nor…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 2nd May 2013 Lord, we come to you with joy in our hearts as we have the opportunity to celebrate Orthodox Easter this week with all Christians in the West Bank and Israel and around the world. Again, we hear the words proclaimed, “al-Mesih qam; hakkan qam!” (the Lord is risen; He is risen…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 25th April 2013 Lord God, we pray that the people whose decisions affect life in Palestine and Israel so much would make wise and loving choices. God, today we thank you for the many organizations making morally responsible choices about investment and refusing to profit from companies connected with actions or policies that are…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 18th April 2013 Lord, this week as we acknowledge Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, we pray with broken hearts for all Palestinians who have suffered or are still suffering in Israeli prisons. It is not that we stop to remember them, because we think of them daily – of our neighbors, our brothers, our husbands, and…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 11th April 2013 Loving God, we once again find ourselves discouraged at the situation around us: continuing violence and racism, ever-increasing settlements, and a “peace process” that has gone completely stale. Even so, we have hope that a new window of opportunity might open to bring the two sides together. Lord, would you give…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 4th April 2013 Lord, we find ourselves in a season of holidays and festivities – some joyful, like Resurrection Sunday, and some acknowledging terrible tragedies that have been perpetrated by and against the human race. In the coming days, as we remember the Deir Yassin Massacre of 1948 and acknowledge the horrors of the…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 28th March 2013 Lord, this week we are shocked, yet again, by the arrest of 29 Palestinian children in Hebron on Monday. Ranging in age from 7 to 15, the children seem to have been arrested at random on their way to school. God, the occupation is hard enough when the ones suffering are adults,…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 21st March 2013 Lord, today we pray for the visit of U.S. President Barak Obama to Palestine and Israel, especially as talks are ongoing in Ramallah. May the decision-makers in the meetings pay heed to the needs of the people, seeking real solutions and taking progressive steps towards justice and peace for all. Lord,…

Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 14th March 2013  Lord, we thank and praise you for the strong leaders the Christian church has known throughout the centuries. Knowing full well how easy it is fall into temptation, we pray to you to help those leaders at moments of weakness for we look up to them for strength. With the Vatican…