Let us exchange the verbiage of war for the adjectives of peace... Let us all take up the chalice of brotherhood and unite a broken world. For peace to exist humanity need only recognize the futility of war ... too, decide that peace is the better course; a path our children can walk without fear. A world at peace doesn't abide in 'poverty', nor suffer the burden of orphans, naked and starving in its cities. A world at peace finds a way to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the indigent... it has plenty and willingly shares it with the needy.
Let us choose the vibrant colors of life over the worn and gray palette of war and poverty... Let us set aside our personal bias and ethnic hatred for a better canvas... Let us apply the brush strokes of liberty from the pallet of peace, to imbue humanity's canvas with a new paradigm,... A paradigm where every manner of tongue and nation, of customs, and ideology embrace the common hope of peace in our time.
Is it so difficult to set aside personal bias... too, forgive the past, as we set out a new canvas... a canvas, that guarantees all people, nations, and religious orders liberty and a common law that ensures peace for all? It seems only logical to choose life and peace, over war and death. Let every nation, tongue, and creed put aside their individual bias and take up the cause of world peace... and there shall be peace.
By
RA Nelson
COL, USArmy (ret.)
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And then there was silence in heaven for about half an hour... as God breaks open the seventh seal and the final act of judgment is revealed to all present... an awe of silence envelops all of Creation as it stands in the court of God's judgment... silent before the Judge of all....
So, it is silence... the blind leading the blind... the deaf expecting an answer our children put out of their ancestral homes?