post 058311: tutu prayer - as given to the PIEN

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Post: 058311
Date: 1999/04/08
From: janet paterson
Subj: tutu prayer - as given to the PIEN
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hi all

here's the prayer as a follow-up to the announcement

janet

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April 7, 1999

Barbara Patterson
Parkinson's List

The text of the prayer follows.  I leave it in your hands to distribute
it as you see fit.  God bless you and your group as you strive valiantly
to raise awareness.

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Parkinson's Disease World Awareness Day Prayer:

O God You are the source of all goodness, life, light, and health and
knowledge.

We thank You for all that you have given us so lavishly - food, shelter,
life, love.  We thank You for those who have loved and cared for us - our
fathers and mothers, our sisters and brothers, our relatives and friends -
others lack all of these things.

We come before You as Your children who are suffering from Parkinson's
Disease.  The world is not always as aware of us as we would want.  We
thank You for those striving to make us more visible.  We, too, are human
persons with feelings and emotions.  We are thankful for those who have
passed laws that seek to make Parkinson's Disease a national and indeed
an international issue.  We want the world to know that we exist.  We are
here.  We are not shadows.  We are not misfits.  We are human beings with
a certain affliction.  We pray that there will be greater awareness of
our plight.  We pray that our governments will make adequate funds
available for research to discover a cure for Parkinson's Disease.  We
are on the verge of a breakthrough.  We pray for those who compassionately
look after us and those searching for a cure.  Bless their efforts and
crown them with wonderful success.  Bless us all.

Pour forth your Holy Spirit on us all abundantly now and always.

Amen.

Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa
Nobel Peace Laureate

God bless you all.

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Yours sincerely,

Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus
Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology

DMT/jls

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