This sounds like a nice way to connect with the people of Israel in their crisis.
Say a Psalm, say a prayer, shoot a terrorist... The world needs all the help it can get.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129093
The sharp escalation in rocket attacks on Israeli cities has prompted the National Council of Young Israel to urge Americans to identify with the fear of rocket attacks by signing up for an SMS program that alerts them of an incoming rocket attack on Israel. Subscribers receive a message notifying them: "A Kassam has been launched at Sderot...you have 15 seconds" to act.While Israelis run for shelters, SMS subscribers are given a choice of options: Recite Psalms Chapter 130; give charity, call the United Nations and/or leading American politicians, or "pause for a moment and pray for the people of Sderot."
"Once again the people of southern Israel need our help and prayers," said Young Israel President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky. "Project SMS provides us with an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the families of Sderot regardless of where we might be at any given moment.
"When the alarm is sounded and the people of Sderot and Ashkelon have just seconds to run for cover, they need to know that there are tens of thousands of people around the world who are saying a prayer on their behalf in their time of crisis."
Psalm 130 (New International Version)
Psalm 130
A song of ascents.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.
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