Dear Liz I believe that your ability to feel tears, to grieve and mourn what is happening in Gaza , to this little boy for the tragedy of it is a prayer. That will sound sentimental and nonsensical but maintaining this capacity is vital I feel sharing the pain. Another kind of prayer is cooking pasta bread. It seems to me this is being human, no answer but also an answer and a kind of prayer xx
Thank you Liz for so clearly expressing your truthful and heart-felt human response.
I share your feelings and think that writing and cooking ARE both DOING something. Altho it may feel small, you don’t know what ripples spread from this.
And ripples become waves and then a tide.
There needs to be a tide from all around the world that like your writing as recognises this terrible ongoing wrong and says NO in every way there is (that is not further violence).
Liz, thank you for voicing the frustration so many of us feel when faced with such horror. I’m Eastern Orthodox, living in an area where there are a lot of Palestinian Orthodox, so in addition to doing anything within our power, we also spend a lot of time in prayer for peace. And to answer your question - yes, your neighborly Orthodox priest was married and had kids! My priest and his wife have 10 children - 8 born to them, two they have adopted. May even our small actions of love help our suffering brothers and sisters and may this horrific war come to an end - it can’t happen soon enough.
Dear Liz I believe that your ability to feel tears, to grieve and mourn what is happening in Gaza , to this little boy for the tragedy of it is a prayer. That will sound sentimental and nonsensical but maintaining this capacity is vital I feel sharing the pain. Another kind of prayer is cooking pasta bread. It seems to me this is being human, no answer but also an answer and a kind of prayer xx
Thank you Liz for so clearly expressing your truthful and heart-felt human response.
I share your feelings and think that writing and cooking ARE both DOING something. Altho it may feel small, you don’t know what ripples spread from this.
And ripples become waves and then a tide.
There needs to be a tide from all around the world that like your writing as recognises this terrible ongoing wrong and says NO in every way there is (that is not further violence).
Thank you Helen. X
Liz, thank you for voicing the frustration so many of us feel when faced with such horror. I’m Eastern Orthodox, living in an area where there are a lot of Palestinian Orthodox, so in addition to doing anything within our power, we also spend a lot of time in prayer for peace. And to answer your question - yes, your neighborly Orthodox priest was married and had kids! My priest and his wife have 10 children - 8 born to them, two they have adopted. May even our small actions of love help our suffering brothers and sisters and may this horrific war come to an end - it can’t happen soon enough.
Thanks for the charity link. It is a question of finding something - anything - to do that makes you feel slightly less helpless.
Thank you - yes, anything that nudges people closer to action, myself included. It has to stop. It has to.