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Prayer of the Day: WIC Nutrition Program
         06-30-2009  
  
  Provide bread for all those who hunger, Our Bread of Life. May the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program (WIC) be strongly funded so that it may supply food for empty bellies.
Verse of the Day: 'Why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?'
         06-29-2009  
  
  Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?
  Prayer of the Day: The Homeless
         06-29-2009  
  
  We pray for shelter for the homeless on our streets. Provide affordable housing for them, O God, and may they find communities that can help them gain stability.
Voice of the Day: Maya Angelou
         06-29-2009  
  
  History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
  Verse of the Day: 'So that the poor of your people may eat'
         06-26-2009  
  
  For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild anima
  Voice of the Day: Bill Moyers
         06-26-2009  
  
  Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable.
  Prayer of the Day: Rest and Renewal
         06-26-2009  
  
  
God of      Sabbath, we pray that all of those seeking your justice may also seek rest      and restoration.
  Voice of the Day: Margaret Mead
         06-25-2009  
  
  Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
  Verse of the Day: 'We brought nothing into the world'
         06-25-2009  
  
  Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be con
  Prayer of the Day: Hope for the Hopeless
         06-25-2009  
  
  
Lord      of Light and Truth, we ask that you pour your spirit on those who lack      hope.
  Verse of the Day: 'Wisdom is better than weapons of war'
         06-24-2009  
  
              So I said, "Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded." The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shout
  Prayer of the Day: Peace in the Middle East
         06-24-2009  
  
  
Redeemer      of Israel and the nations, we pray for peace in the Middle       East.  Make friends of      enemies, and may your loving spirit melt away all hatred and fear.
  Voice of the Day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
         06-24-2009  
  
  The followers of Christ have been called to peace. And they must not only have peace but also make it. To that end they renounce all violence and tumult. ...
  Verse of the Day: 'In the place of justice, wickedness was there'
         06-23-2009  
  
  Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.
  Prayer of the Day: Safe Childbirth
         06-23-2009  
  
  
We      pray to you, God of creation and life, to provide midwives in places where      childbirth often ends in death.
  Voice of the Day: Marge Tuite
         06-23-2009  
  
  Never stop making the connections between sexism, racism, militarism, nationalism and all forms of violence.
  - Marge Tuite,
Dominican Sister
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
         06-22-2009  
  
  Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
  - Martin Luther King Jr.
Verse of the Day: 'You must help to set it free'
         06-22-2009  
  
  When you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey going astray, you shall bring it back.
  Prayer of the Day: Debt Forgiveness
         06-22-2009  
  
  
Soften      the hearts of rich and powerful legislators, Lord, so that they can      forgive the debt of poor countries and free these nations for development      and growth.  
  Prayer of the Day: Liberation from Forced Prostitution and Slavery
         06-19-2009  
  
  Liberator God, we pray for redemption for children and women who are subjugated to forced prostitution and slavery.