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Two Versions:
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Invocation at Carrollton City Hall
Mike Ghouse |
7:00 PM,Tuesday, Feb 21, 2007
Please allow me to greet
you in different religious greetings:
AllaAbho,
Namaste, Salaam o Alaikum, Shalom Alechum, Jai Jinendra, Jai
Swami Narayan, Yali Madad, SatsriAkaal, Hare Krishna, Hamazor
Hama Ashobed and a blessed evening to you.
Dear
God, we seek your guidance in helping us make the right
decisions, please grace us with your blessings.
Dear
God, Bless our world, bless our nation, bless our soldiers and
bless our Mayor, Council and all those, who are present here to
do the right thing.
Dear
God, help us keep the purity of our hearts, and help us achieve
humility, help us learn to overcome our prejudices, our anger
and our jealousies, help us overcome our ignorance about others
of those that You have created.
Dear
God, help us not to think less of anyone that you have created.
Dear God, help us not to undermine the divinity of other ways
of worshipping you.
Dear God, help us recognize that arrogance and ignorance are
the root cause of all evil and protect us from it..
Dear
God, help us know that, remembrance of you is the highest goal
that humankind can achieve.
Dear
God, help us see that our salvation, our peace of mind, our
nirvana, our moksha, our mukti, our freedom and joining your
kingdom, is directly dependent on living a life of following,
submitting and surrendering to you and respecting everything
that you have created.
Dear
God, help us believe in the supremacy of you and the oneness of
the family of humankind.
Dear
God, thank you for allowing us to reach this season, for
sustaining us, and for bringing us together this evening for
this event.
Dear
God, takes us from ignorance to enlightenment, from darkness to
light.
Dear
God, accept our prayers in whichever name we call upon you, we
love to call you Ahura Mazda, Allah, Jehovah, Brahma, Vishnu,
Wahe Guru, Mahavir Swamy, Buddha and Jesus Christ. With your
name we begin our meeting.
Old Version
Dear God,
help us keep the purity of our hearts, and help us achieve humility,
help us learn to over come our prejudices, our anger and our jealousies,
help us over come our ignorance about others of those that
You have
created.
Dear
God, help us believe that you treat all of us kindly and without
discrimination.
Dear God, help us not to think less of anyone that you have created.
Dear God, help us not to undermine the divinity of other ways of
worshipping you.
Dear God, help us recognize that arrogance and ignorance are the
root cause of all evil and keep us away from them.
Dear God, help us to know that remembrance of you is the highest
goal that humankind can achieve.
Dear God, help us respect everyone's way of worshipping and honoring
you, help us learn to hold individuals accountable for their wrongs
and not their parents, their community or their religion, especially
when they did not condone the wrongdoing.
Dear God, help us see that our salvation, our peace of mind, our
nirvana, our moksha, our mukti, our freedom and joining your
kingdom, is directly dependent on living a life of following,
submitting and surrendering to you and respecting everything that
you have created.
Dear God, help us believe in the supremacy of you and the oneness of
the family of humankind.
Dear
God, The world is a better place today because of spirituality.
All your religions are on the same side; that of goodness for
humankind.
Dear God, thank you for allowing us to reach this season, for
sustaining us, and for bringing us together this evening for this
event.
Dear God, help us remove the arrogance and the ignorance that, my
faith is the only way to worship you.
Dear God, takes us from ignorance to enlightenment, from darkness to
light.
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