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    The document shares the story of a temple congregation that prayed for the demise of a newly opened bar across from their temple. When the bar was struck by lightning and burned down, the bar owner sued the temple for being responsible through their prayers. In court, the judge did not know how to rule, as the bar owner believed in the power of prayer while the temple congregation did not. The document then introduces the prayer of Saint Francis, which calls for bringing peace, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light and joy to situations of hatred, wrongdoing, discord, doubt, despair and sadness. The prayer aims to comfort rather than be comforted and understand rather than be understood through forgetting self and finding eternal life

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    The document shares the story of a temple congregation that prayed for the demise of a newly opened bar across from their temple. When the bar was struck by lightning and burned down, the bar owner sued the temple for being responsible through their prayers. In court, the judge did not know how to rule, as the bar owner believed in the power of prayer while the temple congregation did not. The document then introduces the prayer of Saint Francis, which calls for bringing peace, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light and joy to situations of hatred, wrongdoing, discord, doubt, despair and sadness. The prayer aims to comfort rather than be comforted and understand rather than be understood through forgetting self and finding eternal life

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    The document shares the story of a temple congregation that prayed for the demise of a newly opened bar across from their temple. When the bar was struck by lightning and burned down, the bar owner sued the temple for being responsible through their prayers. In court, the judge did not know how to rule, as the bar owner believed in the power of prayer while the temple congregation did not. The document then introduces the prayer of Saint Francis, which calls for bringing peace, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light and joy to situations of hatred, wrongdoing, discord, doubt, despair and sadness. The prayer aims to comfort rather than be comforted and understand rather than be understood through forgetting self and finding eternal life

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    The document shares the story of a temple congregation that prayed for the demise of a newly opened bar across from their temple. When the bar was struck by lightning and burned down, the bar owner sued the temple for being responsible through their prayers. In court, the judge did not know how to rule, as the bar owner believed in the power of prayer while the temple congregation did not. The document then introduces the prayer of Saint Francis, which calls for bringing peace, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light and joy to situations of hatred, wrongdoing, discord, doubt, despair and sadness. The prayer aims to comfort rather than be comforted and understand rather than be understood through forgetting self and finding eternal life

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    The Seven Prayers for Peace Challenge Day 2

    Hi, and welcome to day two of the Power of Prayer Peace Challenge. I hope you enjoyed yesterday's
    light prayer and that you will continue to use it as an experience and new prayer with you today. I hope
    you also saw that prayer can make a difference in a moment and a word that inspires us. It helps us to
    examine and strengthen our faith. When we reach deep inside to access the power of prayer, it not only
    can change our life or our heart or others' lives, but it also has the ability to change the world in my
    experience.

    I want to start today with a funny story about prayer. It happened in a small town in India, and a person
    decided to open up a bar business, which was right opposite of a temple and the temple and its
    congregation obviously we're not so happy about this bar opening. So they started a campaign to lock
    the bar from opening with petitions, and they also prayed daily against this business. Well, as work
    progressed when it was almost complete and was about to open just a few days later, a strong, excuse
    me, lightening happened and struck the bar and it was burnt to the ground, but temple folks were at the
    smug in their outlook after that. Until the bar owner began to sue the temple authorities on the grounds
    that the temple through its congregational prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar
    shop, either directly or indirectly through their actions.

    So this went to court and it's reply to the court the temple vehemently denied all responsibility or any
    connection that their prayers were the reason for this bar's demise. As the judge looked over kind of all
    the paperwork and listened to everybody's comments, and he just didn't know, he said, "I really don't
    know how to judge in this case and what I should do, because it appears we have a bar owner who
    believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and it's devotees that do not."

    Whether you believe or not, I invite you to continue to take this prayer challenge over the next several
    days. See what you experience, what changes you discover in your own heart and also in the world. Each
    time of day, there's also different energies. So experience and try out these prayers during the different
    times of the day to see how that affects your physiology and understand the different times of the day
    and the different energies that happen during those times of the day.

    I want again, remind you to set your intention today for what you want, what you need. Could be world
    peace could be healing, could be justice because there's, again, a power in your intention and a power in
    our collective praying together. So you want to feel deeply that your prayers do make a difference.

    The prayer that I have for today is probably one that you all know, but it is one of my favorites. Mother
    Theresa, was also one of her favorites and she's a role model of mine. She used to say that prayer in
    action is love and love in action is service and the fruit of silence is prayer and the fruit of prayer is faith
    and the fruit of faith is love and the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is priests.

    So I hope you find this prayer gives you some peace and opens the door to a deeper connection for you.
    This is the prayer of Saint Francis.

    Lord, make me a channel of your peace, where there is hatred I may bring love, where there is wrong I
    may bring the spirit of forgiveness, where there is discord I may bring harmony, where there is air I may
    bring truth, where there is doubt I may bring faith, where there is despair I may bring hope, where there
    are shadows I may bring light, where there is sadness I may bring joy. Lord grant that I may seek rather
    to comfort than to be comforted. To understand than to be understood, to love and to be loved. For it is
    by forgetting self that one finds, it is by forgiving that one is forgiving, it is by dying that one awakens to
    eternal life. Amen.

    In Sufism we talk about dying before you die. Experiencing that eternal life of your spirit now in this life
    to live God's light and share God's light in the world now. We call this the fana or the annihilation or
    absorption in God. It represents a breaking down of the ego and a recognition of the fundamental unity
    of God in our enlightened state. We begin to recognize that there is no existence, but the one.

    So I hope this prayer today gives you an experience of that totality. It gives you an experience of
    reaching out beyond your ego, into something greater. Thank you for joining me today and I look
    forward to our next time together and our next prayer. Salaam alaikum, peace be with you.

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