"My experience of conflict is that those who are involved in it long for even a day of peace. To have a day of cessation of violence, that to me is an idea whose time has come."
Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Today is the International Day of Peace.
How do we attain it? How can we get to the point where all have a chance to experience peace? And not just temporary, but long-lasting and real peace?
How can we get past just talking about peace and how much we want it (I keep thinking about Miss Congeniality, a movie which shows Miss USA contestants and their brainless answers to the thing that society most needs - see the video!), to finding ways of reaching it? What can we, what can I do, to help all of us experience peace? And what does peace really entail?
Without God our attempts and hopes for peace will be in vain... True peace with ourselves, with others, can't come by our own doing... But it should start with us. God help us. It only comes from Him.
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