http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html Peace Research Institute Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2444 MKemp Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:47:30 +0000 http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2444 Thank you for posting this brilliant poem. I wish every child in an American school was required to read this, for context, before studying history and current affairs. Thank you for posting this brilliant poem. I wish every child in an American school was required to read this, for context, before studying history and current affairs.

]]> http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2408 efoote Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:40:13 +0000 http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2408 There is 'attempt' and there is 'result', which always seems to veer from the 'expected'. Why is that? Without forethought, aka 'the pause', shame accumulates. Because it is within this moment that you are in your true stance before God, humbled, not arrogant and powerful. All other attempts at being are mis-steps. There is ‘attempt’ and there is ‘result’, which always seems to veer from the ‘expected’. Why is that? Without forethought, aka ‘the pause’, shame accumulates. Because it is within this moment that you are in your true stance before God, humbled, not arrogant and powerful. All other attempts at being are mis-steps.

]]> http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2386 Jack Theis Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:50:30 +0000 http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/626/the-war-prayer.html#comment-2386 Twain must have right-wingers in his day too to wait after his death to publish the poem. The peom is appropriate for any war. Twain must have right-wingers in his day too to wait after his death to publish the poem. The peom is appropriate for any war.

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