Faith Venture

Rich Dixon, writing his weekly contribution to Jon Swanson’s blog, quoted Jesus—blessed are the peacemakers.

I sometimes remind you, and me, about my lifetime core values. Peace and justice.

But Rich’s words provoked a response.

Peacemaker.

That’s an active word.

The word describes a person who actively reaches out in whatever mode they have to make peace. Perhaps create peace. 

I am not going to bring peace to Ukraine. Or Iran. Or the myriad other places of conflict.

I wish…

Pray…

But…I can bring a calming word to a tense situation. I can write this to perhaps influence one other person in the world to bring peace to someone or some situation.

I once quoted the German writer, Thomas Mann, in a piece directed to engineers. They took it literally. But the phrase is metaphorical.

“If everyone swept in front of their own house, the entire world would be clean.”

There’s a song, Let There Be Peace on Earth, which contains the line, “And let it begin with me.”

Begin, not end.

Now, what activity will I do today (I write these mostly in the morning) to bring peace to a corner of the universe? And you?

(You could also click the link on Rich and donate to his efforts to bring peace to a corner of the world far away.)

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