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Week 29 - Pray for peace
One change each week. This week: Pray for peace.
All of my life there has been war going on somewhere.
As a child growing up in San Francisco during World War II, there was a fear that Japan would bomb the city. Every night my job was to pull down a set of special blackout curtains that kept the light inside the house from getting out. That way, the airplanes had a less visible target. Jeeps patrolled the city to make sure this was done. Relatives went off to this war.
I knew people who went off to the Korean War (euphemistically given the Orwellian term "police action"), and to the Viet Nam War (called a "conflict"), and did not come back, or came back carrying shrapnel in their bodies.
I have stood at the Viet Nam Memorial alone at dawn, weeping.
War seems to be a popular activity these days, and I am against it.
For me, my personal change is to pray for peace.
In my belief system this will not result in a sudden divine intervention. What it will do is make me a more peaceful person. It all starts here, with me. And with you. If we are all peaceful in our daily activities, at home, at work, everywhere, then there will be more peace in the world. If we all do it, there will be peace everywhere.
Join in. Pray for peace.
Ross Runkel, Post Office Box 1031, Salem, Oregon
97308-1031.
Phone 503-399-8028. Fax 503-566-8844. email Ross@LawMemo.Com
