Category: peace

International Day of Peace

September 20, 2006 | 3 comments

You may not realize it, but September 21, 2006, is the International Day of Peace, as declared by the United Nations in 1981. The world certainly could use more peace, and every effort by any organization to promote brotherly love

Are you too busy doing things?

September 18, 2006 | No comments yet

Do you ever keep busy for the sake of keeping busy? In this “task-a-minute-world” with endless to-do lists and countless demands on our time, a mindset of always keeping busy can start to develop. If we aren’t doing something, we

Life not in a shell

September 14, 2006 | 1 comment

I’m going to conduct a funeral service today for a family in town whose patriarch passed on this weekend. In looking for words of comfort to assure my audience their beloved family member is still alive and well I thought

"Peace begins with a smile"

September 13, 2006 | 2 comments

Mother Teresa said it, “Peace begins with a smile.” Think how much faster peace would come to the world if we approached everyone we met with a beaming glow of love! Peace not only to the world, but to our

Feeling pressured?

August 30, 2006 | 2 comments

Do you have too many jobs to do? Uncompleted projects piling up? Not enough hours in the day? People demanding your attention? How does one cope with too much to do? One way is to love more. There’s always time