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A Prayer For Our Nation
Dear Heavenly Father, We are moved by the alarming news and crisis that our country is facing.
This, the greatest nation, founded in the belief that "In God We Trust" & the "Land of the Free".
Please have mercy on those suffering, hurting and in fear, and give wisdom & strength to those who are assisting.
May the forces of evil be broken by your power and may we humble before thee, our strength and refuge.
Give wisdom to our President & our leaders and bring your comforting peace through the power of your Holy Spirit.
Help us here to reach to those that have been affected by this tragedy.
In the name of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.
AMEN
News Headlines:
Coping with
Traged
y
The
incredible tragedy at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
is challenging for adults to process and comprehend.
For a child, it's almost impossible. In an effort to
help you find the right words to share with your children,
we've gathered the following information and links.
Pray For Peace.
Helping Kids Cope With The Tragedies of
New York and Washington D.C.
Here are some coping strategies for
children:
Rebuild and reaffirm
attachments and relationships. Love and care in the family is
a primary need. Extra time should be spent with children to
let them know that someone will take care of them and, if
parents are survivors, that their parents have reassumed their
former role as protector and nurturer is important. Physical
closeness is needed.
It is important to talk to
children about the tragedy — to address the irrationality
and suddenness of disaster. Children need to be allowed to
ventilate their feelings, as do adults, and they have a
similar need to have those feelings validated. Reenactments
and play about the catastrophe should be encouraged.
It may be useful to provide
them with special time to paint, draw, or write about the
event. Adults or older children may help pre-school children
reenact the event since pre-school children may not be able to
imagine alternative "endings" to the disaster and
hence may feel particularly helpless.
Parents should be prepared to
tolerate regressive behaviors and accept the manifestation of
aggression and anger especially in the early phases after the
tragedy.
Parents should be prepared for
children to talk sporadically about the event — spending
small segments of time concentrating on particular aspects of
the tragedy.
Children want as much factual
information as possible and should be allowed to discuss their
own theories about what happened in order for them to begin to
master the trauma or to reassert control over their
environment.
Since children are often
reluctant to initiate conversations about trauma, it may be
helpful to ask them what they think other children felt or
thought about the event.
Reaffirming the future and
talking in "hopeful" terms about future events can
help a child rebuild trust and faith in his own future and the
world. Often parental despair interferes with a child's
ability to recover.
Issues of death should be
addressed concretely. The child is not to blame for others'
death. And, death is not a rejection of the child. Death is
permanent and sad. The grieving process should be acknowledged
and shared.
Source: National Education
Association
Download
a free workbook from
children's counseling expert Denise Daniels.
Links that
provide help for talking with your kids:
The
Red Cross
The Red Cross hotline for blood donations is
1 (800) GIVE LIFE.
To donate money to Red Cross relief efforts call
1 (800) HELP NOW.
The
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army will accept financial
contributions through
1 (800) SAL ARMY.
Monetary
Donations
The United Way of New York and the New York
Community Trust have established a fund to help the victims of
the attacks and their families called "The September
Eleventh Fund".
Mailing address for donations:
The September Eleventh Fund
c/o United Way
2 Park Ave
New York, New York, 10016
The FBI has created a Website, http://www.ifccfbi.gov,
and telephone hotline, (800) 331-0075, for information on possible
victims.
Both American Airlines and United Airlines have
set up hotlines for people concerned that family members were
aboard the downed planes.
American Airlines: 1 (800) 245-0999
United 1 (800) 932-8555
Proceeds from the
sales of these memorial lapel pins will be donated to the United
Way via their online donation form.
The September 11th Fund https://www.uniteq.org/uwba/donation.jsp
The
incredible tragedy at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
is challenging for adults to process and comprehend.
For a child, it's almost impossible. In an effort to
help you find the right words to share with your children,
we've gathered the following information and links.
