Coal Miner's Prayer ~

[bridgit]

O Lord, after I have worked my last day
and come out of the earth and have placed my feet on Thy footstool,
let me use the tools of Prudence, Faith, Hope and Charity.
From now on till I will be called to sign my last payroll,
make all the cables in the machinery strong with Thy Love.
Supply all the gangways, slopes and chambers
with The Pure Air Of Thy Grace and
let The Light Of Hope be my guidance and
when my last picking and shoveling is done,
may my last car be Full Of Thy Grace and
give me The Holy Bible for my last shift,
so that Thou, The General Superintendent of all collieries can say:
"WELL DONE THOU GOOD, FAITHFUL MINER
COME AND SIGN THE PAYROLL AND RECEIVE THE CHECK
OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS."
Amen

[Strong Atheist]

1. Still no word ... nt.

[bridgit]

7. word is come it is good...

O8)

[Strong Atheist]

18. .

:cry:

[bridgit]

19. too true...

:cry: it is not good, i grow weary of our vaunted, rita cosby, foxnews, cnn, profit generated 4th estate 'free press' too so very willing to report what they in no way have corroborated, it is a sadness beyond belief they cannot get one story straight and any timely import whatsoever imo

[Strong Atheist]

21. I am not sure that the press is at fault.

I am not sure that ANYONE is at fault, with the possible exception of mine management, who seemed to know the truth long before they released it. As for the initial reports, it seems from what I gather to have been some kind of confused mis-communication that spread, because people wanted to believe ...

[bridgit]

24. i see it as an ongoing lack of journalistic paramter...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x47720

[In_The_Wind]

2. May they all make it out alive!

[bridgit]

4. they seem to be coming...

O8)

[Misunderestimator]

3. Keeping hope and good thoughts for those poor miners.

[bridgit]

5. indeed so...

O8)

[undeterred]

6. CNN reporting 12 found alive

Go over to LBN

[bridgit]

8. i sent this prayer 1st thing this morning don't need no LBN...

O8)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. What a beautiful prayer, my dear bridgit.....

It brought the tears to my eyes.....

Thank you so much for posting this......:pals:

[bridgit]

10. i just felt that they would have known where to go in that mine...

to survive until help came along, god bless the working man O8) :hug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

11. Yes God bless the working man .

[bridgit]

12. CarolinaPeridot...

:hi: :hug: O8)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

16. I just woke up from a nap and I turned to CNN ...

and when I saw the headline that the 12 miners had been found and I just started crying . I don't know where all the emotion came from - the tears started flowing when they were interviewing the relative who thinks that its her loved one that did not survive . Sigh ...

[bridgit]

17. i'm hearing you, sweets, this world too recently careens from chaos...

to chaos, and i know now i was too ready to see these men just become another set of down-beat statistics. but this is a truly uplifting thing to behold. great sorrows for that one boy, mixed with god's grace somehow :cry:

[RevCheesehead]

13. AMEN!!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[KitchenWitch]

14. Blessed Be!

We need a bittersweet smiley.

[bridgit]

15. AMEN, Rev!!

O8)

[kick-ass-bob]

20. My morning paper said they were all alive, but then

I heard on the radio that they were not.

[Shell Beau]

22. Only one survived. How tragic

for the families to be told they survived only to have that crushed. :cry: So sad.

[kick-ass-bob]

23. They have a pic of the woman who is on cnn.com

shouting for joy into her cell phone: headline: "Miracle in West Virginia"


un.real.

:(

[Shell Beau]

25. I know. I saw it all played out on GMA this morning.

They were all running through the streets screaming with joy. Then the laughter turned to tears. It is horrific. I can't even imagine. :(