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Idea of the Month: August |
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Written by Sally Mahe
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
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Excerpt from Letter from Kathy, URI Global Council trustee, USA
...One day while giving a message at the healing service, I realized that if we were for a moment set aside our beliefs and our heritage like being Irish or Native American or Italian and acknowledged our common heritage how powerful this would be. We have a common heritage. We were created by the same energy, that which moves through all life and is life itself. We were molded and shaped and breathed into to do something very beautiful: to reflect that very energy that created us. In its simplicity I realized this is why we are here. This is why we are all different because this beautiful energy that created you and me is infinite possibility.
I believe the fray of war and hatred and disregard for human life is a huge distraction of this very powerful realization. It is as if it is too much for us to accept. We cannot be that beautiful, that powerful, that simple.
Even in our arguments against anything we forget who we are. When we speak against we must muster up that energy of force of putting our ideas over someone else’s: this is a form of war. Placing blame is a form of war. A blame seed when watered can grow into a world war. We have evidence of this in our histories for centuries.
All of you who have chosen to be part of the URI, I ask you to read the PPP's daily. In this you may discover there is another way to react, another way to be that is so amazing I think even URI as an entity forgets it. We are an energy—an energy that will shift this world into another place... It is the energy of speaking for. Speaking for peace, speaking for compassion and justice, speaking for women and children and the dignity of all human beings, speaking for our Earth as a living and vibrant Being. SPEAKING FOR ALL LIFE IS SACRED. It is just adjusting our perspective on life itself perhaps even just a little bit.
...Our compassion and forgiveness must be at the tips of our fingers and the tips of our tongues. It must be in our eyes as we reflect to one another the divine energy that gave us our very lives. May Peace prevail in our mouths, our hearts, and hearts so that it will emanate out to the WHOLE EARTH.
8. Prayer by Karimah, URI coordinator, Europe
May peace with justice/balance prevail in Lebanon, may peace with justice/balance prevail in Israel, may peace with justice/balance prevail in the Palestinian Territories, may peace with justice/balance prevail on Earth.
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