Breaking the Silence: 2003 Iraq Prayer Calendar Featuring photos from Eric Edgin's recent trip to Iraq
In the Fall of 2002, Eric Edgin spent a month in Iraq with a Voices in the Wildnerness team. This calendar captures photos and stories from his trip, and challenges us to spend 2003 in prayer for the Iraqi people and for peace and justice in their land.
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily [oppose] their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against [the apathy] of conformist thought...But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence...have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony. But we must speak...For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1
Lord of all compassion,
comfort those in Iraq who grieve for lost loved ones;
especially those who have died in American attacks
or from illnesses brought on by the economic sanctions.
Amen.
2
Our resurrected Lord Jesus,
bless the million Christians in Iraq.
May they fervently serve their neighbors
and may they be a Christ-like beacon of hope and peace
in these dark times.
Amen.
3
All-powerful God,
We pray for the people of Basra, one of Iraq’s hardest hit cities.
Give them hope, and the strength to endure until that hope is fulfilled.
Amen.
Breaking the Silence: 2003 Iraq Prayer Calendar