June 13, 2004

• THINGS THAT REFRESH MY SOUL

  Peace

  Peace, peace of mind, peace in the world, peacetime, peacemakers. Today is Sunday, the day many folks go to church to celebrate spirituality, and jeez (short for Jesus) I just wish one Sunday I would wake up and find out that all the billions spent on weapons of war were now going to be spent on weapons for peace. What would those be, you say? Well, for example, teaching conflict resolution from the first grade on to our children. Or requiring some form of emotional support (like counseling, or church, or support groups, or whatever) of every single individual on earth every year of their lives. Or making sure every individual and family has excellent health care and the chance for a higher education. What kind of rocket scientist do you have to be to figure this out? In that beautiful biblical verse it says “to everything there is a season.” How about if we had at least a single lifetime of just one side of the balance – a time to be born, a time to plant, a time to heal, a time to build up, a time to laugh, a time to dance, a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, a time to get, a time to keep, a time to sew, a time to speak, a time to love, and most of all, a time of peace.

  Deep Thought: I’d like to see a movie where a guy is going to die when the sand runs out of an hourglass, but then at the last minute an ant stops the sand from running out. Then the rest of the movie is about the ant.
  Today I am grateful for: Unexpected endings

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