Today, I write with a broken heart.
For as long as I can recall, I’ve wanted one thing: PEACE.
Another war started this weekend, and I am immensely sad. I wish I had answers and the power to stop hate and violence. I would guess most of us wish the same.
I don’t know the first time I sang Let There Be Peace on Earth, but I was very young, no more than five. I still ask for peace every single day. So far, my hopes and dreams have not been realized.
The first war that affected my life was the Vietnam War. My generation fought that war. I watched friends leave for war who never returned. Those who came home were changed forever. One beautiful boy named Michael was terrified to go, and dead a month later when a bomb exploded on his platoon. He was 19. His name is on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial. http://www.virtualwall.org/dh/HolzmanMW01a.htm
I don’t understand war, and I don’t understand people who live with so much hate in their lives.
I am so tired of hate, and anger, and war.
They say love is stronger than hate, and I wish I could see more of that in action. I take to heart the words in the song I’ve sung my whole life, and choose to let peace begin with me.
I’m only one person and don’t have the power to change events in the world so much bigger than me. It’s said there’s one thing we can all do to help create a more peaceful world, and it begins in our own lives. We can choose a path of kindness and love, both in how we treat others, but also in how we think. I work hard not to fall into the trap of anger and hate, and some days make this more challenging.
I hope choosing kindness in my daily life and offering thoughts of love, peace, and healing can make a difference in ways I’m too small to understand. This is the one thing I can do.
Although there are several songs about peace I like, I’ll end with this beautiful version of the song I’ve sung my whole life. I dream that if we make conscious choices and unite in songs of peace, we can make the change I still dream of.
Please join me in praying for peace in our lifetime.
I've given up trying to understand the human ego-ic impetus for war. But I haven't given up being a constant source of love.
Ginni, I love this.
I have said for many years, “I can see peace, instead of this...”
It is a line from the book, “A Course in Miracles.” It helps me remember that nothing, NOTHING is ever worth losing my own inner peace over.
Having said that, I still lose my peace, but no frequently. The fiery anger of my youth is long past.
I often share with my yoga ladies, that we can control nothing but ourselves. If we are to see peace, it must begin within ourselves.
We can each make a positive impact on the world, in our own corner.