The Promise of Peace.

[blockquote source=”Henri-Frédéric Amiel”]”Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” [/blockquote]

I read an article the other day; something along the lines of the sadness of world peace.

Sadness, you say? My goodness, and just how could that be? For each and every single morning I see, manifestations of human kindness radiating back to me.

I see it in the softness of a stranger’s smile. I feel it in the warmth of another’s touch. But more so, I feel it in every single moment in which my faith in humanity is restored.

“This generation shall never know peace,” he began. “When car bombs become common place, what is the sense in trying?”

To which, I might offer in response – that the only enemy of peace is resignation.

My darlings, if peace is elusive to this generation in need – then, we must do our very best to remind them.

We must remind through our interactions; through the continuance of a shared space of understanding.We must engage them in the prospect of fairness, and teach them the very foundations upon which equanimity is built.

We must prove to them that peace will find its way, so long as we shepherd it forward.

But most importantly, we show them what it means to be loved. Because, love is the greatest potential of our human hearts.

It sees us through the blinding pain…

It offers refuge when those storms roll in…

It has the capacity to draw even the most distant of hearts, nearer.

My darlings, when children are born they know only love…a love that is truly unconditional in its sharing.

So, instead of us ‘grown ups’ trying to figure out this world peace – let us take a look to our children. As perhaps, it is they who offer the greatest promise of peace.

 

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Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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