Contributed Prayers
Lord, Please give me strength
Submitted by Joe Burrell of Reedville, VA
When I visited Kayford Mountain, WV for the first time I experienced a number of emotions:
Horror - How could anybody do this to the beautiful mountains
Shame - To be part of the human race that perpetrates such a crime
Sadness - Those sites will never be beautiful again
Anger - I hated Massey and the others
Helplessness - What can anybody do to change things
Joy - A lot of good people are working on it
Hope - Progress is being made
Lord, please give me the strength to harness these emotions to work for positive change. Help me turn hate to love, and treat those who agree with mountaintop removal with the repect and dignity they deserve. Help me find the strength to continue working for what is right.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Mr. Burrell…
This is beautiful…and painful. Of all the submissions I’ve read here, yours spoke of that which I feel so deeply in my own soul. The guilt and the hate eat at me, but I too realize that I must harness these negative emotions and focus them into some kind of positive response to this horror. Thank you for putting it so eloquently into words.
Wendye
November 15th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Just read your reply. Thank you.
I am seeing a lot of positive things in recent weeks. I believe that awareness is on an increasingly sharp upper curve.
New York state has gotten in the fray with Virginia’s Dominion Resources over a proposed coal fired power plant.
Massey coal has had a number of regulation decisions made against them recently.
Our prayers have helped.
Joe, November 15, 2007