The Scale of Our Efforts to Build Peace
If we want peace then we need to train for peace and commit ourselves just as fully to building peace in our hearts and lives and in our world as all the war colleges ROTC programs weapons designers basic training special forces training taxation systems officer corps around the world commit themselves. Does that seem overwhelming? Like spitting into the wind or shoveling against the tide? If we try to overcome the culture of violence and death just by human efforts we will be assured a lifetime of frustration and failure. That is not what we are looking for. We seek to make our hearts and lives open and available to God’s Holy Spirit so that we will to will God’s will, and let God’s creation continue in our hearts (building up hearts of love) and through our lives in the world (building up shalom - peace, justice, balance, health, rightness).
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