Over the last week or so I have shared twelve prayers of peace, these twelve prayers were read together in 1986 in Assisi, Italy on the Day of Prayer for World Peace, during the United Nations International Year of Peace.
What have we learned since then as a world in turmoil and pain?
Why is it countless people join in hate filled activities of war, revenge and death?
These prayers all beseech for the unity of man, to cease the destruction of our beautiful world and of her people, yet still we fight! Race against race, country against country, the past clung onto like a sword that cuts it's way through love as hatred is passed down generation after generation fueling the horror of war for another generation, keeping the barriers up and the negativity bubbling away waiting for another outbreak for violence to occur.
History is taught in our schools around the world, yet, they do not teach a history of balance, they preach of war and hostility, of nations that have plundered their fertile lands, of death, destruction and bloodshed. They don't tell our young that each side felt the same loss, the same devastating pain, the same horrors, and in some cases it fails to tell that their solders were too guilty of horrific acts.
If we realize as a people that those who want the wars never fight in them, never dirty their hands with the blood of others, only seek the power of their unbalanced minds, craving supremacy over all, even those in their armies. If we as individuals take the first tentative steps of acceptance and peace, and if we as individuals begin to hold our hands out to those of another race, embrace the knowledge of other cultures, and unite with those who hold hate in their hearts, even if it is just through meditation, we can invoke such a powerful force of love and healing that peace will begin to take control, the negative hold of the oppressors will lose it's footing and begin it's downward slide into oblivion, thus paving the way for the healing of our world.........................
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Peace Prayers.........
Over the last week or so I have shared twelve prayers of peace, these twelve prayers were read together in 1986 in Assisi, Italy on the Day of Prayer for World Peace, during the United Nations International Year of Peace.
What have we learned since then as a world in turmoil and pain?
Why is it countless people join in hate filled activities of war, revenge and death?
These prayers all beseech for the unity of man, to cease the destruction of our beautiful world and of her people, yet still we fight! Race against race, country against country, the past clung onto like a sword that cuts it's way through love as hatred is passed down generation after generation fueling the horror of war for another generation, keeping the barriers up and the negativity bubbling away waiting for another outbreak for violence to occur.
History is taught in our schools around the world, yet, they do not teach a history of balance, they preach of war and hostility, of nations that have plundered their fertile lands, of death, destruction and bloodshed. They don't tell our young that each side felt the same loss, the same devastating pain, the same horrors, and in some cases it fails to tell that their solders were too guilty of horrific acts.
If we realize as a people that those who want the wars never fight in them, never dirty their hands with the blood of others, only seek the power of their unbalanced minds, craving supremacy over all, even those in their armies. If we as individuals take the first tentative steps of acceptance and peace, and if we as individuals begin to hold our hands out to those of another race, embrace the knowledge of other cultures, and unite with those who hold hate in their hearts, even if it is just through meditation, we can invoke such a powerful force of love and healing that peace will begin to take control, the negative hold of the oppressors will lose it's footing and begin it's downward slide into oblivion, thus paving the way for the healing of our world.........................
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So TRUE! All you need is love.
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