IF WE ARE TO HAVE PEACE ON EARTH...EXTEND IT

An atmosphere of loving understanding to all. This is your part to carry out, and then I surround you with a protective screen that keeps all evil from you. It is fashioned by your own attitude of mind, words, and deeds., towards others. -- "God Calling," January 17

Extending an atmosphere of loving understanding to all, is to invite into our life even those with whom we disagree. It is then that we begin to realize they are truly our angels for few but the personally disagreeable turn us so quickly...so sincerely...away from self toward God.

We delve deeper under Saint Francis' words, "Help me to seek to understand rather than seek to be understood," and we are opened to the beyond-me prayer, "Relieve me of the bondage of self." There. Our invitation to God to help us shuck the shield of resistance.

To the reasoning mind everything we feel the need to resist, loosely put, qualifies as evil. Thus our  glimmer of acceptance to resist not evil...to the recognition that our need is basically to resist not. All our arguments, debates, no-nevers about resist not evil as God's will are as crib notes for ego.   

We are on the precipice of that leap of faith out into the wild blue yonder...of actually realizing unto living the words: This is your part to carry out, and then I surround you with a protective screen that keeps all evil from you. It is fashioned by your own attitude of mind, words, and deeds., towards others. 

There's the key to the kingdom of Heaven...others.

It is not complicated. We have come to believe and trust that God has our back, knows our needs, can and will intervene in our life in our behalf. Now, we pass it on...to others who are seeking to extend it to others, who are seeking.... 

It is not about me, it is not about you, it is about us for we are each somebody else's other. It is about all of us in this world and the peace we seek.

...if we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. . . . We must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. . . . The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank you.