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Peace takes time. Peace develops slowly. Ancient rings of anger, hatred and revenge must be broken down or, as our Bird of Peace indicates, broken through…until we realize they were not prison walls at all, but open circles. Transparent. Peace gathers momentum. A small act we might do for someone near or far today may not come back to us for months – even years. But the Bird of Peace flies, day and night, around the world, with great determination, wings pinned back…and never rests. Likewise, every peaceful act we commit will come back to us and bring a gift of peace in our lives. Inevitably. Peace knows no boundaries. It lives in the air we breathe and moves at the speed of light, if we get out of its way. Peace spreads its message by the very act of peacemaking, in myriad colors: gold, turquoise, orange. No speeches necessary. All languages, all cultures understand its message. Peace is irresistable….especially to children. Peace is positive, active. It is not only the opposite of war, hatred, and a desire for revenge. It is also the creation of a new way of living, an atmosphere of compassion and kindness, a willingness to work to choose peace in all circumstances, rather than its opposite. Peace is sometimes simple. Sometimes excruciatingly difficult. How did the Amish parents whose children were shot and killed in that one room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, gain the peace of heart to reach out to the wife and children of their own daughters’ murderer? Only by lives that had long been shaped by the habit of peace. And forgiveness. And a thousand small choices not to perpetuate any tinge of anger or hatred. And so, they did not turn their horrific grief into blame and acts of revenge on the wife and three children of the murderer and ostracise them from their community. On the contrary, they were able – in ongoing acts of superhuman peacemaking – to reach out, giving unconditional comfort and support. Local high school soccer players visited the soccer games of the gunman’s young son (because his father was also dead.) The whole Amish community “took care” of the family as if it were their own. Instead of feeding hate, they worked to heal all their broken hearts at once. Peace is always successful. No matter how clumsy our first efforts to reach out may be, if we keep at it – in our families, our schools, our workplaces, our communities – the Bird of Peace will break through the barriers of mistrust, age-old hurts, grave misunderstandings, even ill will. Peace is inveterate. Unlike War, Peace never surrenders.

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