Prayer

I thought this photograph to be quite beautiful. The innocence of a child surrounded by a sea of white...

{taken by REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas via boston.com}

I'm afraid to say that I found this photo amongst some that are not so beautiful, but are provocatively gruesome images of what the past decade has seen. From Iraq to Hurricane Katrina, and Florida to Indonesia, there are images that will make your heart wrench with pain and dispair.

Let's pray for a more beautiful decade ahead, and an end to the brutality that humanity seems to be so quick to inflict on one another.