Violence turns peaceful....

Hi all,

Here is a message from an email pal, Jean Hughes. It fits so perfectly into this topic I thought I'd share it:

Last night I was listening to Fresh Aire on NPR and heard Terry Grosse talking to two men- former combatants (their word not mine) in both the Israeli services and the other in the Palestinian service. At certain points for both of them they realized that fighting wasn't working and that something had to happen for peace to take place. THere is now an organization which has both Israelis and Palestinians working together to create peace.
I got the good kind of goose bumps. We can't push people into this. It has to be the people are work who can promote peace and perhaps promote is not the right word but I like the thought of people who have been waging war - now waging peace. If you go to www.combatantsforpeace.org you can read the stories and see what it is all about. It is very heartwarming.
Take some time for yourself and write about what peace would look like for you. What do you want to do to help wage peace.
Jean