Saturday, November 10, 2012

a request to the church community...

Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
I have just returned from the area of the world we call Eastern Europe. I was there to continue my prayer odyssey: Pray for Peace. In what was once Nazi-occupied Poland I visited two concentration camps/extermination centers. In Auschwitz I prayed at the 'Wall of Death' where political prisoners were shot. In Birkenau, twenty times larger than Auschwitz, I stood in a gas chamber...where millions were murdered. I ask you to pray for peace, not only today and not only in church but every day and everywhere so that this cycle of hate is obliterated. Maybe not in our generation but in that of our children and grandchildren.
Prisoner Arrival Depot at Birkenau
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