Tag: peace

Pieces

Peace
Means wholeness
When no one
Is looking
For pieces
Of houses
Bodies
Or family
…….Members
Any
For
Ever
…. More Peace
And War Taught
Know
Told
Learnt
No
….Pieces of
My Heart
Lay Shattered
On the floor
I don’t
Have the
Energy
To pick
Them up

Puzzling out
Peace

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How do we Pray for Peace? Prayer

God
We admit
Confess really

That we do not know how to pray for peace.
We want it to be a magic incantation.

One where we have picked the right side.
So peace happens

There you go God
the mystery of Shalom-Salaam is solved.

But Salaam-Shalom isn’t about sides,
You can’t take the word apart like that
You cannot take the world apart like that

These things are not meant to be broken

There are no sides to peace

Shalom-Salaam
the mystery of wholeness, health
hospitality, healing
peace

No wonder peace is
Created
Constructed
Made

It took a Carpenter-
Or at least someone who worked with their hands
to teach us that.

Blessed are the
Builders of Peace
For they Shall Be
Called.Invited.Named.
Children.Having the Nature of.Inheritors of
God
Allah
Yhwh

Salaam-Shalom (Have I said the spell enough yet, God??)

Our tongues ache
From the words of war
(revenge)

And we know
That we have
Taught it

My soul aches
to teach war
No more
no more
no more

Shalom-Salaam

Teach me
to sit with peace
To hammer
weapons into
Planting tools

Teach me
how find the broken pieces
to plant
And to mend
To nurture
And to tend

To sow
Until we find the wholeness
teach us the mystery of this binding

Salaam-Shalom,
Us
Because we Do Not Know How
And none of Us can do it alone
Salaam-Shalom us,
We Pray.

Amen.

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Banksy Dove with a Bulletproof Vest https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/08/05/banskys-west-bank-dove-and-the-palestinian-shopowner-who-met-the-elusive-artist/

Children

CW: Israel/Palestine

Child

How to define
Not an adult
magical being
inspirer of future
bringer of now
takes their sweet time
so meone who should still believe
one who fears scary things
leader to heaven
welcomer
noticer of small things
laughter that bears fairies
wishie-blower
always in a hurry
bearer of peace
own self
right to be

When I was in
Israel & Palestine

Both times
Children ran around me
Giggling, playing chase
speaking a language I didn’t know

I sighed

despite all the propaganda
water shortages
talk of building permits
and guns

I breathed in
and out
in hope

because
the
Children
were
and
are
children
everywhere

Do you see
the
children?

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Humanizing

What is a human
I ask God
in the dark
World weary
of talking points
explanations
and words
…………….words
………………….words

What exactly
is this human being thing?

I wonder? Trying not to count
the bombs going off–
Way worse than the second between
Thunder
……….and lightening

And the latest government crises
does not even deign to mention
hungering children
…………or elderly

And my trans friend cries
a little bit
and my child whispers
and their abused peer
who they called CPS about
to no avail

What is being
the stars glimmer back at me
and I try to catch their twinkles
and remember the taste of tea
the sigh at the end of good book
the snuggles of my kitty cats when I am sad

Children
I am always
Forever
Blessed by the magic
that are children

Human
why define?

I think as
I talk to myself
and remember

Re-Peopling the world
Over and Over again
without conditionals
just Peopling
Because every single
Person
Counts

Being
Human

Human
Being

Humans
Being
Human

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Peace

Jesus blessed the peacemakers

Because peace is not easy
It’s not quiet
Or passive
It’s creative
Joy brimming over

Blessings are not easy either
The Aramaic word
(Jesus hear language)
is tinged with
Duty
Obligation
The work you are filled with
To pass on

Blessed to be a blessing

Blessed are those who make
Create, Believe in
Peace

Blessed are the Peace
Planters
Growers
Cultivators

Do you know what peace tastes like?
Dandelion wishes
blown
towards
a
Friend

Here’s
One for you