Peace Party!

While quilting this morning I had on Sirius Radio and the two talk shows I was listening to had the topic of lies.  How woman lie more, are taught to lie politely, use lies to survive and how our personal lies are so hurtful and leave us in situations that are not good for us.

 

It seems we lie to make things better either for someone or for ourselves.  We lie to protect their feelings while sacrificing our own.

 

Lies and pretending isn’t that the same.  We pretend to not be hurt so that another feels better.  And we may even pretend that another’s actions are not hurtful to protect ourselves the hurt.

 

Now that seems weird, can we really tell the lie to ourselves and then believe it!  Wouldn’t we know we were pretending? 

 

I would like to bring lies and pretend to wars working.  It is Memorial Day and I now have grave issues with wars being the way to peace.  That it is a necessary evil to eradicate evil.  Fighting evil with evil will win us a place called peace.  How can that ever work?

 

Peace is not the gift of war.  Peace does not fall when the war is won.

Peace is not even found in one returning from war.  Peace and freedom is the cost of all wars.  We loose what we are fighting for! Who is really at peace in war, and who really gains peace through fighting?  Either you are the one doing the beating or the one getting beat, now that doesn’t sound peaceful at all on either side!

 

Freedom is the reason we fight, but do we gain freedom if we have to fight to keep it?  We are fighting to have freedom?  So the freedom is gone and we are made to continue fighting lest we lose it.

 

It just seems madness to me. Madness and insanity all around!  And then I see the honorable services, the ceremonies honoring those who fought.  Fighters being honored, the peace keepers fighting to the death for us?

 

I can’t even pretend to pretend to understand or agree with any of this any more.  Mothers on this side and Mothers on that side are losing their children, Fathers on this side and Fathers on that side losing their kids, and the kids on both sides dying for our peace, our freedom and our beliefs.  Our children are made to fight for us!

 

How can we honor that? 

 

Is it possible that we are all tired of the pain, the deaths and fighting going on? Is it possible there is a better way?  Is it possible to stop the wars?  Who will?

 

We all need to stop pretending that war is the answer for peace.  That one life is worth the price?  That we can afford to hurt others and not feel their pain? 

 

I am not sure how this can get turned around, but it seems that with all the technology of today, the wisdom we have, that we should be working to find peaceful solutions.

 

I just can’t lie to myself anymore that wars work.  I am so thankful that my children have not yet had to be asked to fight.

 

Imagine asked to fight.

 

We are so not a peaceful nation. 

 

Peace, “be the change you want to see in the world” is what Ghandi said.

 

Here it is Memorial Day and I want to focus instead on ways we can live peacefully.  I want to find peaceful answers, ones that don’t require another to lose either their minds or their bodies. 

 

I have a hard time to even muster up support for their actions now and of the past.  It seems that I would be supporting fighting, killing and maiming!

 

Perhaps the truth needs to be faced, to see what it is we are really doing and who we are really hurting, and then shake out the bottom and see if Peace and Freedom lay there.  Who is brave enough to look?  Who has the courage to see what it is we are doing and to whom?

 

God and Religion are the main reasons that wars are fought.  Imagine if we instead looked for ways we can honor and serve God.

 

Perhaps the belief that there is only one right way to God is what has us all killing each other and hating so many.

 

What if instead we looked at all the different paths to God, to honor all the different ways we can reach God, see God and Be with God! 

 

If we could agree that there is not just one right way, then perhaps we would not have so many wrong. 

 

Whenever you are made to pick sides, to choose teams, to have a winner and a loser you, are separating.  We are separating and making one more special than the other, instead of seeking to join and becoming one.

 

If we saw ourselves as the human family on this planet called earth, a family that was eager to get along, to serve and honor each other, seeking to understand different cultures and rituals, perhaps we could have less wars and more peace parties. 

 

Peace parties, that I can attend…I would love to be part of a Peace Party!