Return to Viola's Spiritual Blessings
"Let Us Pray
For Tolerance
And Cultural Understanding
Among All People Of The World."He Gives Them A voice
He lived the journey
Inspired by Philip Riteman and
Of the Holocaust
He watched families die
Brutally paying a cost
That most human beings
Can hardly understand
Because we did not live
Like this Jewish man.
Men, women and babies
And best friends too
Died for no reason
Under German rule.
Philip lived the history
And he has to share
So that never again
Will humanity bear
Inhuman treatment
Like the prisoners faced
The painful carnage
Of the Jewish race.
The Warsaw ghetto
And the crematory
Where thousands burned
Make Philip's story
One of survival
We need to hear
From this witness
Who conquered fear.
Hundreds of thousands
Of innocent died
Philip gives them a voice
Amid the tears he cries,
Praying that listeners
Will live in love
Protecting the world
From loss of innocent blood.
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© Viola Doncaster, April 22, 2001.
the Yom HaShoah 2001
Holocaust Memorial Observance
held at the Temple Sons of Israel
in Sydney, CB, NS.
Survivors
Prayerful Presence
Before I rest my head tonight
I'm sending up a prayer
that God will bless and guide you
and keep you in his care
asking that your guardian angels
will stay close by your side
bringing a prayerful presence
that God's peace does reside
within the hearts and souls
of all who trust in Him
so that whatever comes our way
He helps us turn from sin.
May He lift our hearts in praise
and helps us shine anew
so that we follow His will
in all we say and do.
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(c) Viola Doncaster, April 9, 2001.