The Restory Retreat Centre

  Advent: Peace “Will you not revive us again,  so that your people may rejoice in you?  Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,  and grant us your salvation.  Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;  righteousness and peace will kiss each other.” ‭‭Ps 85‬:‭6-7‭‬, ‭10‬ NRSV‭                                       ‬‬ The Conversation   Elements From The Conversation   Music With our love. George & Matilda

Jerusalem Nowhere is there more prayer. The Nuns at the Holy Sepulchre. The faithful at Al Aqsa Mosque. The worshippers at the Wall. The call to prayer at dawn and dusk Warbling from the citadels. The church bells, The Persian trills, The passion spilled over texts From every major/minor religious sect. Nowhere is there more prayer than Jerusalem, Thanks be to God, Hamdilala, Baruch Hashem. And yet, I'm starting to think that it's You and not them, God, what's the point of prayer? If there's nowhere where There's more prayer, And terror reigns Then, Who's to blame? If suddenly, without a whisper goodbye, Jesus, Allah, Adonai, The three men they admire most All took the last train for the coast, And the Moslems got up from their knees And the Christians put down their rosaries And the Jews stayed their hands from kissing Their mezuzahs, And everyone looked up, And realized something's missing... God is missing. Stop ...