Amen! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan or Joan Snyder" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:18 AM Subject: Our Chatroom Prayer for the Millenium > Last night in the PWP chatroom, we held and interdenominational prayer > and party to celebrate the new millennium. It is not my intention to > start any fights about religion but I am posting this prayer that I > wrote as requested by several of the chat room members: > > Heavenly Father, we come before You...a people on the brink of a new > millennium...a family brought together by a common bond...friends who > love and cry and tease and fight and hurt. > We thank You Lord, for the blessings you that You have showered upon us: > the courage, the determination; the strengths and the weaknesses. But > most all, we thank You for the gift of each other-for it is from others > that we draw support to face each day. > We ask for Your aid so that we may understand Your plan for each of us & > to help us deal with the ravages of our disease. > We ask also for guidance each day as we contend with each other: fragile > as might be- torn by struggle and pain. > Grant us the wisdom and the patience to really listen to each other and > to offer Truth and Comfort from our daily strife. Give us the ability to > live each day as it is presented to us with grace and dignity. > And if it be Your will, we ask that these new years bring a cure and the > ability to face all of the possibilities that would then be open to us. > We ask all of these things in the faith that Your will be done. > Amen > > May your New Year be filled with Peace & Prosperity & undying Hope!!! > -- > Joan E. Snyder 48/10 > [log in to unmask] > <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm> > "Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." > Annette Funicello >