"Victorious Peace, painting by Edwin J. Bruns"

PEACE

Whether we celebrate Passover, Easter, Wesak, Beltane, or any other spring holiday, we celebrate renewal, rebirth, freedom, and peace. Freedom and peace are not free, nor are they rights;
these are two of our most precious privileges.
Our most effective method in the pursuit of peace and freedom (or anything else) is using our own heart and mind. What we think and feel...how we maintain our attitude and live our lives...is the key to making it a reality.
We must walk our talk.
The message below was an e-mail message sent to the school that plants the seed of a tremendous thought: "One Day In Peace" (total, global, interdisciplinary, interactive). A goal has been set for the end of the Century. I encourage you to appreciate most the concluding thought:

Do expect miracles!

THINK ABOUT THIS.....
ONE DAY IN PEACE, JANUARY 1, 2008.....

This is a 24-hour concept where no guns are fired anywhere on earth…including on television. What if, for 24 hours, whosoever happens to be at war on December 31st, 2007, agrees that for one whole day no guns would be fired? The silence would be golden.
And what if the television programmers of the world agreed to not air any programming with a violent content? (It would probably be easier to get warring nations to stop firing than it would be to get the world's television programmers to not air violent programming!)
This is a thought-wave campaign. Which is to say, the more people who grasp this thought, the more it comes into reality...

One Day In Peace, January 1, 2008...
pass it on...
EXPECT A MIRACLE

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A SUMMARY OF THE WORLD

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male.
70 would be non-white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
Half of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death , 1 would be near birth.
Only 1 would have a college education.
No one would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
Author unknown

The Dove of Peace flies from site to site, through as many countries as possible. It does not belong to ANY belief system. Please help it make a line around the globe by taking it with you to your site, by giving it to someone for their site, by passing it on to another continent, to the conflict areas of the world......