Our prayers are with all of the hostages' families and loved ones during these dark days of Advent as we wait for the light. May God's peace and grace transform this suffering into life and lead to peace. Kathy Brahney
please know that hundreds of thousands of people are thinking of your loved ones, the brave work they are involved in, the pain that you must be feeling. you are not alone, although I'm sure it must feel that way. may tom, norman, jim and harmeet be held in the light. may you find strength and peace in this most harrowing time.
Dear families: You and your missing loved ones were the first thoughts to enter my mind this morning. Please know that my entire family is praying for you all. There would be not better Christmas present for us all than the safe return of your loved ones! May God continue to bless and keep you through this time.
Our thoughts and prayers are with those involved in the Christian Peacemaker Teams. We pray that Tom Jim, Norman and Harmeet are safe, and that they know they're never alone. Our hopes are that their families will also feel the support of their friends and loved ones at this frightening time.
Dear Friends: I send a prayer your way asking that God's love will sustain you through this terrible ordeal. Although I don't know any of the CPTs, they are obviously very special people. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Sons of God".
The thing that always hits home at times like this is how it could be any of us that engage in peace work around the world. I still pray that they will be released and will have gained a greater understanding of the conflict with which to continue their work. I pray in the end good will come from this.
We were very moved by what we heard the CPT team was doing in Iraq. It's exactly what is needed there. It's terrible that they are being held captive, but our hope is somehow that their captors will have their eyes opened and will understand God's love. We weep with you and hope to rejoice with you too on their safe return. Fred and Rhea.
Dear Families, This situation has broken my heart over and over again. I pray for you and I pray for your loved ones and I pray for the Iraqis and I pray for peace, peace, peace. May peace prevail in the world, and may peace prevail in the hearts of our fellow human beings. I have realized now more than ever that we are all connected to each other, and we all bear responsibility for one another. May we all become our brothers' keepers better and better every day. I'm holding you all in the Light, Christopher Richmond
We are praying for safety for the 4 captive CPT workers and peace of mind for their families. The Lord bless you and keep you, The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you, The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
I continue to raise you up in prayer and have faith that Christ's message of love in the face of hate, life in the face of death,will have the final word. As a member of the family of Rachel Corrie, I feel a special connection to you. Those with the courage to stand for peace represent the best that humanity can give to the world. Eliabeth Corrie
Jim and I were on a CPT delegation to Iraq together in January 2003. I feel privileged to have met him and through his letters have followed his continued work for human rights. To all who know and love Jim, Tom, Norman, and Harmeet, I wish you peace and the fulfillment of our dreams and prayers. - Sue Gray
Dear Family and Friends of Tom, Harmeet, James and Norman, The story of the capture and of your wait may have moved off the media's headlines -- but your loved ones and you are still in the hearts and prayers of so many people.
Hi I am a grade 8 student at covanent christian school in leduc I have been praying for you for a while and I just want to say that I dont know what it is like to have a loved one in danger but I just want to say keep your hopes up I hope everything come out as you want.
Dear families, I'm praying for you and your families not only me but tones of others are too. I hope that you will find peace. I also encourage you to pray about this. May God be with you and bring peace and joy in your life. Lots of love, Chrystin
Dear families of harmeet, jim, norman and tom. In school we are learning obout peace. I know how hard it must be to keep peace in your heart through this all. We are praying for you and may god be with you. from Gr 8 student at covenant in leduc AB
Dear families I encourage you to keep on praying. I dont know what it feels like to have a loved one in danger but I'm sure it's hard. Many people are praying for you. I'm sure you are very proud of your loved one for going out and speaking the truth. I can see they have lots of courage. Keep on praying and don't lose hope. God is with them. Grade 8 student from covenent Leduc Alberta
Please know that we are all praying for you. Stay strong and hopefully the Lord will help you . We hope all this will be over soon and you all can love and take care of your family. Sincerely, Donovan a grade 8 student in C.C.S
Hello, I am praying for your family and hoping for there safety and that they will stay strong in the lord even though they are in hard times. Your in My Prayers Jordan
Dear family members, May God's peace and will be with you as you go about your day. You have such brave and world leaders in your family that the world is proud of. May God's will be done be done even through these evil acts. May God bless and lots of love from your fellow sister in Christ.
May God bring peace to our land and our countries.He is watching over our friends and family. Let God keep your parents, children and friends safe. May God bless them and keep them safe.
Dear families: my prayers will be with you as we enter the second last wekk until christmas i hope that your sons or dads. i pray rthat god will keep an eye on these people because they have families that miss them and want them home. I just wanted to say that god will be with. god bless these famoilies and give them strenght to continue to follow you. I hope that harmeet, jim, tom , and norman will make it home before christmas and may god be with you.
I am really sorry to hear what happened and I hpe you can put faith in God. I am thirteen I don't understand why people do things like that. I hope Jim, Norman, Harmeet, and Tom will make it home safely but I know that there are people probably praying for them to be able to.
Hello I'm in a grade 8 class and I just wanted to say may God be with you.I live in leduc alberta. I know it is very hard for you at this time. Our class will pray for you and we may even get our school to pray for you. I pray that God will be with you. I hope you have a merry christmas. Even though you don't know me you can still know that we are praying for you. I pray God will keep you safe and that you may find peace and strength. We will pray for you!! BYE
Your loved ones continue to bring light to this world, even in this difficult time. Every day, I encounter more people at work, at vigil, on my way to and from home, and in my family life who have been touched by the amazing courage and commitment to peace of Jim, Harmeet, Tom and Norman. Every day, we all learn more about their important work, and the work of others to promote peace around the world, and our own commitment grows. We would like you to know that we will continue to pray, to learn, and to try harder to help others in our lives, because of your sons, fathers, brothers, uncles.
To Jim's family - His friends in Toronto who work with the Ministry of Energy are thinking about you, and remembering Jim's kindness and his wonderful sense of community and fun during his time at Zaccheus House in Toronto.
To Harmeet's family - I live in Burlington, Ontario. On the way home from work in Toronto on the GO train last Friday evening, I met a man who had studied engineering with Harmeet. He commented on Harmeet's gentleness and his commitment to peace.
To all the missing CPTers' families: My own family puts a candle in the front window of our house very night for your loved ones and for you.
I pray for each and every one of you. May you all be blessed with a miracle this Christmas. Your family memebers who are held hostage are honourable people. I am an Indigenous person in Canada and I know some of them have helped in our communities. This does not always happen. I hope this word gets out to their captors and they send them back to you. My heart goes out to each and every one of you. May the Creator bless you all and may your loved ones come home to you alive.
Dear Families, Please know that miracles occur often when associated with prayer. James, Norman, Tom and Harmeet have changed the world with their missions. Although a change of this magnitude may not have been in their plans, their capture has inspired stories and messages of hope that have touched every corner of the earth. They truly are heroes and it is my hope that when they are released the peace that they will bring about will be monumental. The tales of their amazing humanity has opened the eyes of many who did not see the true horror of the oppressed. Their messages of peace keeping and love for all humankind is inspiring. You should be immensely proud of what your brothers, sons, friends and loved ones are doing. They are changing the world forever!
My prayers are with the hostages, their families and with the abductors. I especially pray for the work of CPT to continue to bear good fruit. I will diligently pray for the days, weeks and years to come that an everlasting peace will one day prevail.
Jim, Harmeet, Norman, Tom and their families, friends and loved ones are in my thoughts and prayers through the day and night. I pray that the light they shine to the world shines also for one anoother right now, and know that the peace and presence of Christ is with them. I pray for their safe return.
Dear Dan, Madeleine, Richard, Elena, Michael, and Jim's other loved ones in Toronto,
As we continue to pray for Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom, and for all the people missing loved ones in this world because of war and conflict, we hold you and others in your community in our hearts and prayers, too. We know that you continue to honour Jim's work and beliefs through your own commitment to peace and to community. We wish you love and hope.
Thank you and bless you for allowing your family members to be martyrs for our cause. Hopefully more families will follow your most righteous examples.
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, the Prince of Peace, we pray for you and for your dear family members. The Advent Candle of Peace has been burning during this season in our church, to remind us to pray at all times for the safe release of the CPT team members. Blessed are the peacemakers.
My daughter Zoe who turned four this October is just learning to pray. When she isn't too embarrassed to give thanks during meals, she says,"Thank you Jesus for this wonderful food and this wonderful house. We pray for the four men that they don't get hurt. Amen." I carry a small piece of paper with Harmeet, Tom, Norman, and Jim's name in my pant's pocket to remember to pray for them. God's peacemakers are not forgotten in this house. Christine Mihevc
Dear families of Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom, In this incredibly difficult time, please know that so many people have you and your loved ones in our hearts. I wrote a song today that I would like to share with you. Unfortunately I can't enclose music, but here are the lyrics. They don't do justice to the magnitude of what is happening, but are simply a message offered in hopefulness:
We're singing for peace, And we're singing solidarity Singing for courage and Singing down walls We'll sing without fear And before all authority Singing when darkness falls
I was walking along in a day dream The cares of the world on my mind The headlines they said, There were 43 dead And I thought of their loved ones behind
But we're singing for peace...
Now how can we turn this thing over? Who has to make up their mind? Raise your hand in a fist You'll end up on a list While the leaders go on with their war crimes
Still we're singing for peace...
Some take the next step of struggle An attempt to get in the way Believe to the core In a world without war Live to bring peace in our day
Our prayers are with the families and friends of the four being held in Iraq. May you have a clear and strong sense of God's presence sustaining you and them during this most agonizing time. And may you be reunited with your loved ones soon.
Dear Friends, I am not feeling very eloquent, but I am moved to share my love. It has been hard to watch another day go by - and this very special day, Christmas - waiting for good news on your loved ones. I love them, too, for the example they give me, and the simple gifts they've wrapped for our world within their hearts and bodies. I am humbled and inspired. I have also not taken lightly this reminder of all the nameless other captives and victims I too often forget. I pray you will feel some peace as you go through one moment at a time, that you will see some of the beauty of life each day, that you will guide your imaginations to good and gentle places, and that you will not feel alone in your sorrows. Praying for miracles and working at finding ways to offer the needed "loaves and fishes" - Dona McDonough
Although, I have never met any of the 4 men or their families, please know they are in my heart and in my prayers. There is not a day that goes by where I do not wish them safety and a wonderful reunion with their families and friends. I pray that you will get word soon and pray that it is good news. Sending you prayers of strength, Christina (Georgetown, On)
In these winter days and nights, we continue to honour your loved ones, Tom, Norman, Jim and Harmeet in our hearts and prayers. We give thanks for their love and faith in each person's ability to do good in this world. We light our candle, we keep our vigil, we look for their light in each new day's opportunity for courage and compassion.
Dear CPTers Family, Greensboro First Friends Meeting is gathering for 24 hours starting December 31 at noon to pray for peace. In particular, we will remember Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom and you their families. We pray that God provides sustenance - whatever you need - to walk through each day as you wait for your beloveds to come home. We send you our love. deborah suess, first friends meeting, greensboro, n.c.
I continue to pray for Harmeet, Norman, Tom, Jim and all of their families and friends. May the peace they give to the world be felt and may the love of Christ continue to surround and sustain them. I pray for their safe release and return home. It only takes a moment in a lifetime to be transformed and truly inspired by the example Jim lives and in the few moments our paths have crossed at church and in volunteer work, I have felt the incredible gift of harmony and peace flowing out from him. Whenever I look at Jim's picture I am filled with such an incredible sense of peace remembering who he is that I can't help but feel the incredible peace he gives to the world. The presence of peace in Jim has touched my life very deeply. I feel the same sense of peace when I read the words and see the work of Norman, Harmeet and Tom. I pray that the world feels the healing peace being given through the courage of Jim, Harmeet, Tom and Norman and that they are released safely.
My dear friends let us all pray for the peace in Iraq and for the safety of all the innocents who are facing death in every corner of their townes and cities, may God have mercy on them. today the families of the cpt members in Iraq are sharing the same paine of many many Iraqi families who have lost their loved ones in such ways, I want to say to them all dont lose hope because God's hand is never far from the good people.
May the same Spirit that Led your dear ones to serve the opressed, now grant you peace as you deal with the stress of the unknown. We, as a family and in our Meetings, continue to hold you in The Light.
The holidays must have been difficult with the stress of not knowing the status of your loved ones. Please know that there are hundreds of us empathizing with you and praying for the safe return of the four men. Bill & Martha Faw, Vidalia (Bill is brother of Peggy Gish, now in Baghadad)
Our church in Vancouver has a small basement suite, called Stillpointe, where we can use as a retreat. In Stillpointe there is a book of prayers. The faces of your four loved ones are in that book along with written prayers. We continue to hold them up in prayer, longing for their release. May you feel God's peace in your hearts and know his love.
With love from Kathy Parsons (our son, David, is a friend of Jim's thru One World and is in Palestine with ISM)
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Our prayers are with all of the hostages' families and loved ones during these dark days of Advent as we wait for the light. May God's peace and grace transform this suffering into life and lead to peace. Kathy Brahney
please know that hundreds of thousands of people are thinking of your loved ones, the brave work they are involved in, the pain that you must be feeling. you are not alone, although I'm sure it must feel that way. may tom, norman, jim and harmeet be held in the light. may you find strength and peace in this most harrowing time.
peace,
elle thomas
Dear families:
You and your missing loved ones were the first thoughts to enter my mind this morning. Please know that my entire family is praying for you all. There would be not better Christmas present for us all than the safe return of your loved ones! May God continue to bless and keep you through this time.
Love and thoughts and prayers,
Sandy Tauschek
May God be with you and your family.
Our thoughts and prayers are with those involved in the Christian Peacemaker Teams. We pray that Tom Jim, Norman and Harmeet are safe, and that they know they're never alone. Our hopes are that their families will also feel the support of their friends and loved ones at this frightening time.
Dear Friends:
I send a prayer your way asking that God's love will sustain you through this terrible ordeal. Although I don't know any of the CPTs, they are obviously very special people. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Sons of God".
The thing that always hits home at times like this is how it could be any of us that engage in peace work around the world. I still pray that they will be released and will have gained a greater understanding of the conflict with which to continue their work. I pray in the end good will come from this.
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We were very moved by what we heard the CPT
team was doing in Iraq. It's exactly what is needed there. It's terrible that they are being held captive, but our hope is somehow that their captors will have their eyes opened and will understand God's love. We weep with you and hope to rejoice with you too on their safe return. Fred and Rhea.
Greetings
We pray for those detained, imprisoned, and otherwise subjected to injustice.
We hope for the release of the captives: those in prisons, the missing four, and all of Iraq under occupation.
We hope all people can return to their homes in safety.
Richard Albrecht et al
Dear Families,
This situation has broken my heart over and over again. I pray for you and I pray for your loved ones and I pray for the Iraqis and I pray for peace, peace, peace. May peace prevail in the world, and may peace prevail in the hearts of our fellow human beings.
I have realized now more than ever that we are all connected to each other, and we all bear responsibility for one another. May we all become our brothers' keepers better and better every day.
I'm holding you all in the Light,
Christopher Richmond
We are praying for safety for the 4 captive CPT workers and peace of mind for their families. The Lord bless you and keep you, The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you, The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
I continue to raise you up in prayer and have faith that Christ's message of love in the face of hate, life in the face of death,will have the final word.
As a member of the family of Rachel Corrie, I feel a special connection to you. Those with the courage to stand for peace represent the best that humanity can give to the world.
Eliabeth Corrie
Jim and I were on a CPT delegation to Iraq together in January 2003. I feel privileged to have met him and through his letters have followed his continued work for human rights. To all who know and love Jim, Tom, Norman, and Harmeet, I wish you peace and the fulfillment of our dreams and prayers. - Sue Gray
Dear Family and Friends of Tom, Harmeet, James and Norman,
The story of the capture and of your wait may have moved off the media's headlines -- but your loved ones and you are still in the hearts and prayers of so many people.
Hi I am a grade 8 student at covanent christian school in leduc I have been praying for you for a while and I just want to say that I dont know what it is like to have a loved one in danger but I just want to say keep your hopes up I hope everything come out as you want.
I am praying for their safety.
I also hope you have the strength to deal with this situation.
My prayers are with you and your families.I hope your famiy can find peace. May God be with you and your troubles.
Lots of love,
Mariska
Dear families,
I'm praying for you and your families not only me but tones of others are too. I hope that you will find peace. I also encourage you to pray about this. May God be with you and bring peace and joy in your life.
Lots of love,
Chrystin
Dear families of harmeet, jim, norman and tom. In school we are learning obout peace. I know how hard it must be to keep peace in your heart through this all. We are praying for you and may god be with you.
from
Gr 8 student at
covenant in leduc AB
our class is praying for all of you in our devotions in the mornings. I pray that God would help all of you and i hope he does.
Hi I am a Grade 8 student at covanent christian school in leduc I hope that all is good for your family.
Dear families
I encourage you to keep on praying. I dont know what it feels like to have a loved one in danger but I'm sure it's hard. Many people are praying for you. I'm sure you are very proud of your loved one for going out and speaking the truth. I can see they have lots of courage. Keep on praying and don't lose hope. God is with them.
Grade 8 student from covenent Leduc Alberta
Please know that we are all praying for you. Stay strong and hopefully the Lord will help you .
We hope all this will be over soon and you all can love and take care of your family.
Sincerely,
Donovan a grade 8 student in C.C.S
Hello,
I am praying for your family and hoping for there safety and that they will stay strong in the lord even though they are in hard times.
Your in My Prayers
Jordan
I hope that you can find peace in this time of hurt. Your child is doing the right thing and you should be proud of them.
Dear family members,
May God's peace and will be with you as you go about your day. You have such brave and world leaders in your family that the world is proud of. May God's will be done be done even through these evil acts. May God bless and lots of love from your fellow sister in Christ.
HI I AM PRAYING FOR YOUR FAMILY AND THE SITUATIONTHATS GOING ON IN IRAQ AND I HOPE THATYOU STILL ARE BELEIVEING IN WHAT THEY ARE DOING
May God bring peace to our land and our countries.He is watching over our friends and family. Let God keep your parents, children and friends safe. May God bless them and keep them safe.
Dear families:
my prayers will be with you as we enter the second last wekk until christmas i hope that your sons or dads. i pray rthat god will keep an eye on these people because they have families that miss them and want them home. I just wanted to say that god will be with. god bless these famoilies and give them strenght to continue to follow you. I hope that harmeet, jim, tom , and norman will make it home before christmas and may god be with you.
I am really sorry to hear what happened and I hpe you can put faith in God. I am thirteen I don't understand why people do things like that. I hope Jim, Norman, Harmeet, and Tom will make it home safely but I know that there are people probably praying for them to be able to.
Hello I'm in a grade 8 class and I just wanted to say may God be with you.I live in leduc alberta. I know it is very hard for you at this time. Our class will pray for you and we may even get our school to pray for you. I pray that God will be with you. I hope you have a merry christmas. Even though you don't know me you can still know that we are praying for you. I pray God will keep you safe and that you may find peace and strength. We will pray for you!! BYE
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Your loved ones continue to bring light to this world, even in this difficult time. Every day, I encounter more people at work, at vigil, on my way to and from home, and in my family life who have been touched by the amazing courage and commitment to peace of Jim, Harmeet, Tom and Norman. Every day, we all learn more about their important work, and the work of others to promote peace around the world, and our own commitment grows. We would like you to know that we will continue to pray, to learn, and to try harder to help others in our lives, because of your sons, fathers, brothers, uncles.
To Jim's family - His friends in Toronto who work with the Ministry of Energy are thinking about you, and remembering Jim's kindness and his wonderful sense of community and fun during his time at Zaccheus House in Toronto.
To Harmeet's family - I live in Burlington, Ontario. On the way home from work in Toronto on the GO train last Friday evening, I met a man who had studied engineering with Harmeet. He commented on Harmeet's gentleness and his commitment to peace.
To all the missing CPTers' families: My own family puts a candle in the front window of our house very night for your loved ones and for you.
Sincerely,
Jill Pritchard-Scott
I pray for each and every one of you. May you all be blessed with a miracle this Christmas. Your family memebers who are held hostage are honourable people. I am an Indigenous person in Canada and I know some of them have helped in our communities. This does not always happen. I hope this word gets out to their captors and they send them back to you. My heart goes out to each and every one of you. May the Creator bless you all and may your loved ones come home to you alive.
Dear Families,
Please know that miracles occur often when associated with prayer. James, Norman, Tom and Harmeet have changed the world with their missions. Although a change of this magnitude may not have been in their plans, their capture has inspired stories and messages of hope that have touched every corner of the earth. They truly are heroes and it is my hope that when they are released the peace that they will bring about will be monumental. The tales of their amazing humanity has opened the eyes of many who did not see the true horror of the oppressed. Their messages of peace keeping and love for all humankind is inspiring. You should be immensely proud of what your brothers, sons, friends and loved ones are doing. They are changing the world forever!
My prayers are with the hostages, their families and with the abductors. I especially pray for the work of CPT to continue to bear good fruit. I will diligently pray for the days, weeks and years to come that an everlasting peace will one day prevail.
Mark Khanevski-Frailey
Dear Tom, Harmeet, James, Norman,
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
May peace be with you.
Ellen
Jim, Harmeet, Norman, Tom and their families, friends and loved ones are in my thoughts and prayers through the day and night. I pray that the light they shine to the world shines also for one anoother right now, and know that the peace and presence of Christ is with them. I pray for their safe return.
Peace,
Cynthia
Dear Dan, Madeleine, Richard, Elena, Michael, and Jim's other loved ones in Toronto,
As we continue to pray for Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom, and for all the people missing loved ones in this world because of war and conflict, we hold you and others in your community in our hearts and prayers, too. We know that you continue to honour Jim's work and beliefs through your own commitment to peace and to community. We wish you love and hope.
Jill Pritchard-Scott and Family
Burlington, ON
Thank you and bless you for allowing your family members to be martyrs for our cause. Hopefully more families will follow your most righteous examples.
To the families of Harmeet, Norman, Tom and Jim:
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, the Prince of Peace, we pray for you and for your dear family members. The Advent Candle of Peace has been burning during this season in our church, to remind us to pray at all times for the safe release of the CPT team members. Blessed are the peacemakers.
Margaret and Bill Boyd
Parry Sound, ON
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My daughter Zoe who turned four this October is just learning to pray. When she isn't too embarrassed to give thanks during meals, she says,"Thank you Jesus for this wonderful food and this wonderful house. We pray for the four men that they don't get hurt. Amen." I carry a small piece of paper with Harmeet, Tom, Norman, and Jim's name in my pant's pocket to remember to pray for them. God's peacemakers are not forgotten in this house. Christine Mihevc
Dear families of Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom,
In this incredibly difficult time, please know that so many people have you and your loved ones in our hearts. I wrote a song today that I would like to share with you. Unfortunately I can't enclose music, but here are the lyrics. They don't do justice to the magnitude of what is happening, but are simply a message offered in hopefulness:
We're singing for peace,
And we're singing solidarity
Singing for courage and
Singing down walls
We'll sing without fear
And before all authority
Singing when darkness falls
I was walking along in a day dream
The cares of the world on my mind
The headlines they said,
There were 43 dead
And I thought of their loved ones behind
But we're singing for peace...
Now how can we turn this thing over?
Who has to make up their mind?
Raise your hand in a fist
You'll end up on a list
While the leaders go on with their war crimes
Still we're singing for peace...
Some take the next step of struggle
An attempt to get in the way
Believe to the core
In a world without war
Live to bring peace in our day
And we're singing for peace...
Our prayers are with the families and friends of the four being held in Iraq. May you have a clear and strong sense of God's presence sustaining you and them during this most agonizing time. And may you be reunited with your loved ones soon.
Dear Friends,
I am not feeling very eloquent, but I am moved to share my love. It has been hard to watch another day go by - and this very special day, Christmas - waiting for good news on your loved ones. I love them, too, for the example they give me, and the simple gifts they've wrapped for our world within their hearts and bodies. I am humbled and inspired. I have also not taken lightly this reminder of all the nameless other captives and victims I too often forget.
I pray you will feel some peace as you go through one moment at a time, that you will see some of the beauty of life each day, that you will guide your imaginations to good and gentle places, and that you will not feel alone in your sorrows.
Praying for miracles and working at finding ways to offer the needed "loaves and fishes" - Dona McDonough
Although, I have never met any of the 4 men or their families, please know they are in my heart and in my prayers. There is not a day that goes by where I do not wish them safety and a wonderful reunion with their families and friends. I pray that you will get word soon and pray that it is good news.
Sending you prayers of strength,
Christina (Georgetown, On)
In these winter days and nights, we continue to honour your loved ones, Tom, Norman, Jim and Harmeet in our hearts and prayers. We give thanks for their love and faith in each person's ability to do good in this world. We light our candle, we keep our vigil, we look for their light in each new day's opportunity for courage and compassion.
Jill Pritchard-Scott
Burlington, ON
Dear CPTers Family,
Greensboro First Friends Meeting is gathering for 24 hours starting December 31 at noon to pray for peace. In particular, we will remember Harmeet, Jim, Norman and Tom and you their families. We pray that God provides sustenance - whatever you need - to walk through each day as you wait for your beloveds to come home.
We send you our love.
deborah suess, first friends meeting, greensboro, n.c.
I continue to pray for Harmeet, Norman, Tom, Jim and all of their families and friends. May the peace they give to the world be felt and may the love of Christ continue to surround and sustain them. I pray for their safe release and return home. It only takes a moment in a lifetime to be transformed and truly inspired by the example Jim lives and in the few moments our paths have crossed at church and in volunteer work, I have felt the incredible gift of harmony and peace flowing out from him. Whenever I look at Jim's picture I am filled with such an incredible sense of peace remembering who he is that I can't help but feel the incredible peace he gives to the world. The presence of peace in Jim has touched my life very deeply. I feel the same sense of peace when I read the words and see the work of Norman, Harmeet and Tom. I pray that the world feels the healing peace being given through the courage of Jim, Harmeet, Tom and Norman and that they are released safely.
Cynthia Sharp
Student Christian Movement alumni
My dear friends let us all pray for the peace in Iraq and for the safety of all the innocents who are facing death in every corner of their townes and cities, may God have mercy on them.
today the families of the cpt members in Iraq are sharing the same paine of many many Iraqi families who have lost their loved ones in such ways, I want to say to them all dont lose hope because God's hand is never far from the good people.
May the same Spirit that Led your dear ones to serve the opressed, now grant you peace as you deal with the stress of the unknown. We, as a family and in our Meetings, continue to hold you in The Light.
The holidays must have been difficult with the stress of not knowing the status of your loved ones. Please know that there are hundreds of us empathizing with you and praying for the safe return of the four men.
Bill & Martha Faw, Vidalia
(Bill is brother of Peggy Gish, now in Baghadad)
Our church in Vancouver has a small basement suite, called Stillpointe, where we can use as a retreat. In Stillpointe there is a book of prayers. The faces of your four loved ones are in that book along with written prayers.
We continue to hold them up in prayer, longing for their release. May you feel God's peace in your hearts and know his love.
With love from Kathy Parsons (our son, David, is a friend of Jim's thru One World and is in Palestine with ISM)
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