No One Wants World Peace
No one wants world peace. At least that’s the conclusion we might come to if we look around at the conflict we see and the fact that few people seem outwardly concerned.
Yet here’s a secret: although we’re not seeing big peace marches, millions have begun the peace journey inside, where it really counts. They’re taking small, inner steps toward peace because that is where world peace starts: inside you and me.
Do you want to contribute to world peace? Can’t imagine yourself organizing a peace rally? Don’t have the time or energy to march on Washington? Feel overwhelmed by ideas about what you “should” do to help create peace? Are you beating yourself up over it, mumbling that “no one” cares or if you “really” cared that you’d “do something?”
Please don’t beat yourself up. We’re in a different time from the 1960′s or any other time in the world. And something different than what we’re used to is afoot: knowledge that if we plant and grow the seeds of peace in our minds, then that march on Washington won’t be necessary.
So don’t despair. Instead, start by making this your mantra: “I am a messenger of peace.” Even if you just started a fight with someone or if you initially supported the war in Iraq, you still have the right to claim you are a messenger of peace NOW. All it takes is the intention to become one.
Then repeat “I am a messenger of peace” as you fix dinner or drive to work. Chant it like a mantra. Like brushing your teeth, it will become a habit. The idea, when repeated, will have a long-term positive effect on your outlook, the unfolding of your life and how your life impacts others.
Also reward yourself with little joys. For me, listening to this song by Cat Stevens is one of those “little joys.” It makes me happy while helping to refocus my intention.
“Peace Train” has endured for decades because of the joy and optimism it expresses. It also answers an unspoken question we carry in our hearts: Must each of us ”board the peace train” and make our own personal journey a foray into peace? And if we must, can we be successful?
This song says: Yes. Yes, we can do it. This is a journey everyone can make. No matter what personal soul-searching it takes, we can get there. And it doesn’t have to be a hard slog. It can be joyful.
So enjoy this song and hear its call to “board the peace train” as a quest that awaits you, because you are not only the hero of your own life, you are destined to become God’s messenger of peace.
Dear God,
Love is my true identity. Joy is my true message. Peace is my true mission.
Let this be my mantra until I feel its truth: I love, approve and support myself. I forgive my past and accept that I am perfect in Your eyes. I relax into the beauty of being human. And I am Your messenger of peace.
Thank you for my new-found joy.
Amen.
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“Blessed are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:9
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.” Isaiah 2:4
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I want world peace but have noticed some make excuses forthose that commit violent acts in theworld or areat least very selective as to what groups of violent people they condemn and and do not condemn.
How canwe achieve peaceby calling one act terrorism in one part of the world and almost aplauding it in another by calling its perpetrators heroes or ‘freedom fighters’?
This creates anger and hatred in the victims of violence and the hatred grows from generation to generation.
Perhaps we need to examine our own agendas and prejudices thenpeacemay be possible.
excusint the violent ,giving hema platform inour press andexcusing the killing of innocent civilians will not bring peace only war,anger,killing and hatred.
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I want world peace but have noticed some make excuses for those that commit violent acts in the world or are least very selective as to what groups of violent people they condemn and and do not condemn.
How can we achieve peace by calling one act ‘terrorism’ in one part of the world and almost aplauding it in another by calling its perpetrators heroes or ‘freedom fighters’?
This creates anger and hatred in the victims of violence and the hatred grows from generation to generation.
Perhaps we need to examine our own agendas and prejudices then peace may be possible.
Excusing the violent, giving them a platform in our press and excusing the killing of innocent civilians will not bring peace only war, anger, killing and hatred.
All are made in God’s Image and are equally valuable in His eyes.
I agree with you that we always need to be expanding our awareness.
I agree, also, that killing by anyone is still killing, and that killing is not to be applauded, no matter who does it or for what reason, for we are told: Thou shalt not kill.
What people who kill do not understand is that when they kill another person it is really rather pointless since we are all eternal beings and we are all just dipping our toes in the water of Earth. The main part of us is non-physical.
Also, when they kill, they are killing themselves, since we are really all one being in God.
God has come down here on earth to play, experiment, experience and expand through our individual forms.
Once we “get” that we are extensions of God and do not die but only take on our physical bodies as a kind of curriculum for learning, we will realize we need not defend our bodies or our lives.
Then it will be easier to get out of fear and start to look at people who are angry and fearful and violent from a place of compassion because they are really in a hellish place, cut off from their Source and the pure love that is Source energy.
You start to be able to love your enemies when you truly – without agendas – can see your enemy as in pain due to his separation from God.
You see that he is simply failing his lesson to learn how to express God’s love on the physical plane.
He is so unhappy, so unfulfilled, so filled with feelings injustice and rage and despair and revenge that all he can do is take pleasure in causing pain or “winning” by killing.
As the Bible says, you “heap coals of fire upon him” when you bless and love him sincerely because that love will be his undoing. It can wreck his plans of destruction for you.
Oh, darn.
He also does not yet know that, when he kills you, he alienates himself from awareness of the sweetness of God’s love and joy and safety.
We cannot kill when the love and joy of God fills us.
So aspire to love your brother truly. Call on God to fill you both with love and joy that your brother cannot kill you and you cannot harm him.
Even if he does destroy your body, it is not the end of you. Far from it.
While I do not mean to make light of the trauma people go through in fighting and dying or being tortured through war – it is painful and unspeakably hellish – I think the video game model is a pretty good analogy for what is going on for our physical lives.
We incarnate, learn lessons, go up a few levels and die. The death is peaceful or, depending upon the type of game we have chosen to play, a violent end. Then we start over at the new level.
Consider that the Bible says that, in defending our lives, we lose them.
What this means is that, when we are in the mindset of thinking we must defend our lives, we have moved out of awareness of our eternal nature and our connection to Source.
At that point we are in fear, not love.
It is not true that you can have your faith in God and in guns at the same time. If your faith is in one, it cannot be in the other.
As humankind awakens to the truth of what you say: “that we are all made in God’s image and are equally valuable [and beloved] in his eyes,” it will be harder to justify killing.
As people realize that they are eternal beings, and that our Creator is loving and giving and only says “yes” to us, they will stop fearing and start feeling more secure.
For now, the best thing to do is not to make others wrong for what they believe or do – no matter how much it pains us – but to learn to love them as God loves them.
As we love them we lift them up so they become aware of themselves as more than bodies that die.
This is how violence will be dissolved: through each person increasing the amount of love he or she can feel and radiate into the world.
So let your primary intention be to expand the love and joy inside you.
Learn to love those who are in fear and doing what you feel is harm and injustice. Send love to them, not judgment. Become love and peace and harmony to the best of your ability.
This is the greatest service you can do.
I send you love and much gratitude for your comment.
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