Getting Naked for Peace......and more!

Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian woman profiled in a recent Newsweek magazine story, created a Peace movement in the midst of a brutal civil war. Peace talks were going nowhere. In frustration she disrobed publicly, a form of spiritual emasculation in her culture. The act of getting naked, spurred the men involved in Peace negotiations forward. Peace has returned to Liberia.

There's more! In the Philippines wives of feuding villagers recently decided to withhold sex from their husbands until they created Peace. Of course it worked!

What bold and previously unthinkable action might you take for Peace?

Love,
Darlene

Peace and sticky hands

"Peace.....is the freedom of a love that does not have glue on its hands".

Iain Matthews

How might you remove the "glue from your hands", those places where you are literally too attached or stuck, so that you love without condition and know the Peace of that?

Love,
Darlene

Peace in a troubled world

If this is repetitious in bears repeating (thanks Karen Russell)!

"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of Peace in ourselves, more and more Peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more Peace there is in us, the more Peace there will be in our troubled world."

Etty Hillesum from An Interrupted Life.

Love,
Darlene

Peace is tops!

Richard Rohr, in Falling Upward, offers that because we can't all get to the top, "far too many just stay at the bottom of their own lives and try to compensate in all kinds of futile and self-defeating ways." You know - that place where you experience self pity, resentment and addictions!

Peace isn't about getting to the top of someone else's ideal for your lives. It's about loving yourself fully into the top of your own idea of your life. You know - that place where you experience joy, love and satisfaction!

Your the tops!

Love,
Darlene