PRAYERS FOR SOMALIA

Awliyo Alla iyadaa is af taqaan:

Saints of Allah dig each other

Saints of Adonai daven with each other

Saints of God speak to each other
In the same tongue

In Truth
In Spirit
And never ever need
No interpreter
No translator.
—A Somali saying

IN YOUR MIDST

I, God, am in your midst

Whoever knows me can never fall

Not in the heights

Nor in the depths

Nor in the breadths

For I am love

Which the vast expanse of evil

Can never still.

—Hildegard of Bingen

Lord, make me the instrument of thy peace

Where there is hatred, let me sow love

Where there is injury, pardon

Where there is doubt, faith

Where there is despair, hope

Where there is darkness, light

Where there is sadness, joy

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console

To be understood as to understand

To be loved as to love

For it is in giving that we receive

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

—Saint Francis of Assisi


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