April 23, 2018

*Please Join Us For Our Daily Noon Prayer*

“COMPASSION ENCIRCLES THE EARTH FOR ALL BEINGS EVERYWHERE”

And Our Prayer for the Week from Judy Carman

*MAY 4 IS INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY; ALL OF MAY IS THEIR
SPECIAL*
*MONTH*. Let’s get ready. This event was introduced by United Poultry
Concerns in
2005 “to celebrate chickens throughout the world and protest the bleakness
of
their lives in farming operations.” UPC suggests many possible actions we
can
take, as well as posters and handouts to order, on the website. This Sikh
story
brings home the truth that chickens are precious individuals who love life
just
as we do. “A man was once given a chicken by his guru and told to go and
kill it
[him or her] where nobody could see. The man tried and tried to find a place
where he could kill the chicken without anybody’s seeing and finally gave
up and
went back to the guru. ‘Why couldn’t you find a place where nobody would
see you
kill the chicken?’ asked the guru. ‘Because everywhere I went, the chicken
saw,’
said the man.” (From *How to Think if You Want to Change the World*, p. 138)

*OUR PRAYER THIS WEEK IS FOR ALL CHICKENS TO BE RESPECTED FOR WHO THEY ARE
AND TO*
*BE LIBERATED FROM HUMAN VIOLENCE AND DOMINATION:* We give thanks for United
Poultry Concerns and all the activists who have worked tirelessly for years
to
show the world that chickens are amazing, courageous, beautiful and loving
beings. We give thanks for all the information we have now to help us
educate
pre-vegans. We ask for blessings of peace for every single individual among
the
billions who are being killed. For while the killing machines grind on, we
know
that each precious chicken has lost friends, children, mothers, and suffered
terrible pain and heartache. We honor and memorialize them all—the fallen.
And
we pray for strength, clarity and inner peace, that we may stand in
solidarity
with them as long as it takes to win their freedom from human violence at
last.
And as our tears fall for them, may we also feel that spiritual joy that
comes
from being awakened to our very real kinship with chickens. What a blessing
it
is to know that they are our friends, not our food. Help us to be love and
to
bring love to all people and all beings. As always, I send my thanks to
each of
you, dear Prayer Circle members, for joining this circle of compassion and
shining the Light of Truth for all to see, so that one day soon, all beings
will
be free.

*May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all beings
everywhere.*
*Thank you all for your devotion to truth, love, liberation and peace for
all*
*beings.*

With Love, peace, and gratitude from Judy Carman, and greetings from Will,
Madeleine, and the Circle of Compassion team.

*PLEASE SHARE* this prayer by going to the Prayer Circle for Animals
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/prayercircleforanimals/>.
This prayer is posted there. You can also share ideas and prayer requests on
that facebook.

*PLEASE VISIT* the Circle of Compassion website
<http://circleofcompassion.org> for “A prayer a day for animals;”
and the Daily Noon Prayer. To help expand this ministry, donations are
gratefully accepted.

—
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
Don’t just switch from beef to chicken. Go Vegan.
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