THE PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING

I came across a post of mine from 2015 and was taken by the similarity between then and now that showed in what I wrote about.  As Dylan wrote some years back, the times they are a-changing...but not by much it seems.

Seven short years ago, religion seemed to be our bugaboo. Politics seems to be the main player today, but, face it, with religion ever hovering in the shadows. 

The following is from that 2015 post. Note that the very first word, religion, is the one change needed...with the word politics substituted: 

[Religion] Politics seems to me to be the last holdout of the justified-hate crowd. If we're ever going to face our own ego down, and by that I mean, let God out from within, we need to consider giving our ears freedom. Freedom to hear others speak their truth...neither rejecting it nor buying it whole cloth.

Just because we listen, doesn't mean we must respond, vocally or mentally. We can give a silent shrug or hug and keep on walking. We can do that...but only by disciplining our own mind. Our own attack mind.

We can pray for peace until our face falls off, but peace will not be ours until we give peace away.

Lessons we are slowly learning...the peace we need be seeking is not the egoic peace of "winning" or even of self-determining to "let the other win." No. The peace that heals is the peace that passes understanding. Not of self, of God.

Thank you.