Monthly Archives: October 2006
Something Scary
Words Of Wisdom
Getting Centered
This site is about prayers to God. It includes favorite bhajans from Hindu religion, mantras and prayers. It features online indian temple bhajans such as Radhe Krishna temple bhajans, Ganesha temple bhajans, Vaishno mata temple bhajans, Hanumana tample bhajans, Parvati Shiva temple bhajans and Sita Rama temple bhajans.
What does all that mean? Well it means that they have these wonderful prayerful mantras and songs. I played the Hare Krishna mantra when I went there, and it felt so good. The music went straight into my heart and actually brought tears to my eyes.
As I was surfing for new and different prayer sites, one thing was constant, no matter what the content, or the intent, or the consciousness, or the religious affiliation – the concept of getting still, and finding a place of alignment or closeness to God was mentioned almost every time. And so I think it must be important. That’s what these hindu prayers did for me – so that’s why I am sharing them here.
To listen to these prayers you will need Windows Media Player.
You can get this free plug-in from the Microsoft web site
There are different pages, with different prayers and mantras, the page I went to was the Radhe Krishna Temple Prayers, and if you scroll down the page you will see various links to various mantras, bhajans, and even some talks given by the Swami.
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Looks like these links no longer take you to the right pages. But hey, I’ve got something better! It’s a video. George Harrison and the Radha Krishna temple singing Hare Krishna. Enjoy!
A Sense Of Adventure
Feeling adventurous today? How about this? I found the official website of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. And they accept prayer requests. Isn’t that cool? Here is a direct link to the prayer request page.
If you want to browse the site first, you can go to www.nationalshrine.com. The easiest way to get to the prayer request page, is to scroll down to the bottom of the page, find the site map and look for the submit prayer request link there.
This is what they have to say about prayer requests. “Mary’s maternal intercession is very powerful. We welcome your prayer requests at her National Shrine. Prayer requests are received here at the Shrine to be remembered in our daily Masses and devotions through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. May God bless you.”
So I thought this would be a little different.. Mary, the mother of Jesus, will do the praying for us. Nifty huh?
Shaking Things Up
We Are All In This Together
I was reading The Onion this morning and I came across this article. I thought it was just hilarious. It seemed appropriate to our blog, and so here it is:
Also, I am wondering if we might want to think about adding into our prayers things that are related to prosperity, such as success, resources, empowerment, energy, enthusiasm, time, money, luxury, divine solutions, opportunity, etc etc.
Bye for now
Exploring The Concept
I went on an online search this morning to see if I could discover anything profound or interesting about prayer. I put “pray for me” into my yahoo search bar, and this is what I came up with.
I found a really beautifully crafted website that offers (for a small fee) to put your prayer as close to God’s ear as possible. The website url is: www.letter2god.com in case any of you want to go and see what that is all about.
I also found a site www.greatercalling.org They set up conference calls for people who want to pray together, and I thought that was interesting too. Especially if you have a group scattered all over the place and you want to pray together.
I checked out the science of mind website, and looked at their online form for creating an “affirmitive mind treatment”. That was nifty, and I encourage you all to do that.
I found www.claretians.org where, for a donation of $10 or more, your prayers are joined with those of the thousands of St. Jude devotees in every corner of the world. I liked their picture of St Jude. It looks like he is wearing a giant penny with Jesus on it.
At www.prayer.la prayers are posted, and then anyone who wants to can go see the prayer request, pray for that person, and then send them a short email saying that they have prayed for them. A concept called “PUSH” was discussed there: “Pray Until Something Happens”.
My absolute favorite link was this one:
Find, compare and buy Pray.
The Inner Dad
I was sitting here, wondering what to post, when I noticed this postcard. It came to me a long time ago, and the image of this very intense man looked so familiar to me that I put him on my desk.
He is now the “master” of my bills.. and frowns at me when I don’t pay them. This morning I realized that he very much resembles my “inner dad”, and might even be a portrait of who “god” is to me.
What’s really funny and interesting is that his persona.. his “look”.. his mood and attitude.. is so much like my ex-husband that the first time my granddaughter saw the picture (she was about 3), she said “Is that my grandpa?”
Anyway.. I am wondering if I need to somehow find a new understanding of my “inner dad” and a different perspective of who “god” is to me.
The picture is called “Machismo”, the artist is Hector Casanova. The postcard came to me from the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery in Kansas City Mo.
A work in progress
Hi.. this post is still a work in progress. And I am not sure that I will ever get it “done”.
This morning I spent some time promoting our blog in a couple of blog directories. So we might even end up with some more visitors. I put it on Globe of Blogs, and Blog Explosion. And I downloaded a nifty tool for backing up the blog just in case blogger.com accidentally loses our blog altogether. So I have been working on our “work in progress” all morning.
Another thing I am looking into is spiffing up our page a little bit. And I was wondering if you guys would like it to be a little more colorful? And what about a logo? or a banner? I found a tutorial on how to do that kind of thing. What do you think? Or do you like it how it is… lots of white space and just plain and simple? Let me know.. because if you all really love the white space and the simplicity.. I will leave it at that.
So.. our project is a work in progress, our site is a work in progress, and each one of us is a work in progress.. and I like that because it shows a sort of continuity.. an “integrity” of sorts.
The Unexpected
Here is a prayer for unexpected income:
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