Intentions That Came To Be: Giving Thanks for 2024

In this special edition to end 2024, we reflect on the many answers to our intentions and prayers this year. We give thanks for major progress made in conflicts and crises, step changes in some formerly challenging situations, and large scale global advancements in attending to the care of our planet and the health of the world's poor. Join with us as we recognise and appreciate the great strides have been taken in a world that too often seems driven by conflict and catastrophe.

Suggested focus for this week

As we end our review of this year, let’s concentrate our energy this week on giving thanks, as we suggest as our main focus:

We give thanks for the many answered intentions and prayers that we know of this year, as well as the many that we don’t.

Please join us in holding this.

Chapter markers:

00:00:00       Introduction

00:02:57       Reflecting on Global Conflicts

00:07:06       Vaccination Efforts Worldwide

00:09:12       Myanmar’s Humanitarian Crisis

00:10:49       Microplastic Pollution

00:13:30       Climate Challenges

00:15:40       Sri Lanka’s Political Transformation

00:17:43       Global Electoral Trends

00:18:36       Hurricane Responses in the US

00:19:52       Political Shifts in Syria and South Korea

00:22:23       Focus on Environmental Commitments

00:27:28       Gratitude for Progress

00:28:00       Suggested Focus for this end of year

Sources referenced in this episode:

https://newclimate.org/resources/publications/progress-of-major-emitters-towards-climate-targets-2024-update

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/why-2024-will-be-a-big-year-for-positive-economic-statecraft/

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/30/seeking-to-distract-from-the-war-in-ukraine-and-rising-prices-at-home-the-kremlin-is-amplifying-anti-migrant-rhetoric

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-october-16-2024

https://ecfr.eu/article/israels-unwinnable-wars-the-path-to-de-escalation-in-the-middle-east/

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/09/war-sudan-intensifying-coordinated-pressure-needed-prevent-countrys-fragmentation

https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15728.doc.htm

https://acleddata.com/2024/05/31/somalia-situation-update-may-2024-renewed-counter-insurgency-operations-expected-as-al-shabaab-regroups/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/15/taliban-deliberately-deprived-1-4-million-girls-of-schooling-un

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/17/talibans-attack-girls-education-harming-afghanistans-future

https://www.theccc.org