The Egyptian flag.
From the New York Times:
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt resigned his post and turned over all power to the military on Friday, ending his 30 years of autocratic rule and bowing to a historic popular uprising that has transformed politics in Egypt and around the Arab world.
The streets of Cairo exploded in shouts of “God is Great” moments after Mr. Mubarak’s vice president and longtime intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, announced during evening prayers that Mr. Mubarak has passed all authority to a council of military leaders.
Mubarak has left Cairo and retired to his home in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Let us pray for the people and the government of Egypt.
O God, whose glory is in all the world: We commend the nation of Egypt to your merciful care, that, being guided by your goodness, they may dwell secure in peace. Grant to the new President of Egypt and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do your will. Fill them with the love of truth and righteousness, and make them ever mindful of their calling to humbly serve the people of their country. Amen.
Tomb of NakhtA tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer.
Image from Wikipedia.
FYI, top picture link is broken.
ReplyDeleteJCF, the image at the top is the Egyptian flag, which I thought would be obvious. What do you mean that the link is broken?
ReplyDeleteThat took him long enough. It's not often you get a million people in the streets shouting for a politician to go.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the prayer, Mimi, which I shall pray tonight.
Cathy, I sometimes use the prayers in our prayer book and edit them to fit the circumstances. I'm not that good at making up prayers, yet if I ask folks to pray, it seems a good thing to have a prayer available, should they want to use it.
ReplyDeleteWe should have hit the streets when the Supreme Court declared Bush the winner and at several other points during his dreadful 8 years in office.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your last point absolutely, in fact the lack of protest over the election was absolutely shocking.
ReplyDeleteI think you are good at making up prayers, Mimi. Anyway, I've prayed it now, along with my other prayers.
wv - poplous. Egypt is a poplous country?
The flag of Egypt is not showing up on my 'puter. Just a blank space where it should be.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow is for the hard and frustrating work of rebuilding. Today is for celebrating.
The poplous of Egypt did decree that Mubarak should go! And lo, he went!
ReplyDeleteWe independent minded Americans have turned as passive and fatalistic as Chinese peasants...
ReplyDelete... which is curious because Chinese peasants are not nearly as passive and fatalistic as they once were. In fact, these days they can be much bolder in taking on the Powers That Be, and at much greater risk, than us.
Lovely tomb relief by the way Mimi.
ReplyDeleteIs the flag visible now, Counterlight and JCF?
ReplyDeleteCathy, the tomb reliefs are beautiful. The colors....
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, I lifted your Egyptian flag. I should know to save the pictures to my Picasa program first. If they show there, they will show on the blog. Otherwise, it ain't necessarily so.
Yup, up & running!
ReplyDeletePrayers for Egypt, on "The Day After."
I suppose most of you have seen the Robert Redford movie, "The Candidate"? The whole movie is his epic quest to win elective office (I think US Senator?), and then when he does..."Now what?" Egypt now enters the "Now what?" phase...
JCF, the prayer serves quite well for the "Now what?" for the country and the people of Egypt.
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