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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460371" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0006 Prayer for the Condemned</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He’ll be the next to go.<br>In the Condemned Block, over many years, <br>he’s moved up the line; now he’s got that end cell.<br>All legal processes have been tested.<br>Of course his lawyers will fight once again –<br>a pardon’s out of the question, of course, <br>but maybe just a lifer? (He’s spent half of it<br>behind bars anyway.) At Association Time, <br>if it’s allowed, the others look at him<br>covertly – how’s he taking it? And maybe<br>know a little more of themselves..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, we’re asked to pray for him<br>knowing in our hearts, that he’s but<br>a metaphor for all of us.. so despite his crimes, <br>there’s that in us which feels that we are he…<br>and redemption’s not unknown, to God or man…<br>are we just praying for ourselves? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how to pray, and how to pray for – what? <br>that he be free to be himself again? <br>but we don’t know him well enough to trust<br>him when he says, he’s found God in there…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if we pray that he remain himself, <br>but where he is, behind those bars, <br>to work out his life, like a monk<br>(who also needs more time, even forever, <br>to understand ‘ forever’ more) –<br>there’s mercy for you, of a sort, <br>if he will get that spiritual support<br>that monks may call upon…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We may pray to God to bring him change of mind, <br>if it’s not too late now.. and here again, <br>who is to judge, or how may he himself so prove? <br>‘O Lord, please give him one more chance…’ –<br>are we thinking more of him than of ourselves? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, we may pray, deep in ourselves, that human law<br>may bring together as we best may know<br>justice and mercy in their godly match..<br>and in a subtle sense, his death, if it bring<br>that dedication in our social thoughts, <br>will have been in some small way<br>another death but on the cross of life for us; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for some of us, prayer's not unlike<br>the action of a wounded animal - as if comatose, <br>gathering all one's capabilities, and diving deep<br>beyond words, beyond thought, beyond any wish, <br>like a surrender of one's living soul<br>to seek, deep within oneself, that place<br>where all souls meet...; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who live a life of faith<br>need but to dip into <br>the holy water of eternity<br>flowing in the sweet words<br>of the age of faith: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'Lette goe the teares<br> of earthlie wepynge -<br> comende hys sawle<br> to Cristés kepynge'...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So should we not, when and if we pray each day, <br>and use the Lord’s Prayer, reaching that too familiar line, <br>‘Thy Will be Done’, <br> pause, and remember him in his last hours, <br>- perhaps remember Him in His last hours -<br>and live the remainder of our lives<br>(as we move up the line towards That Day) <br>slightly, subtly, differently; and know<br>a little more about prayer; about ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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In the Condemned Block, over many years, 
he’s moved up the line; now he’s got that end cell.
All legal processes have been tested.
Of course his lawyers will fight once again –
a pardon’s out of the question, of..."></div>
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