Seeking to sow peace

Rev. Jesse Jennings, writing in Science of Mind magazine, says, “The world is seeking to sow peace, not just as the ending of open hostilities, but as a durable, perpetual field of play in which mutual respect and understanding are the norm.”

I liked his idea particularly since it gives the world a soul. “The world itself is seeking to sow peace . . . .” Delicious.

A weekend ago I participated in Earth Hour, www.earthhour.org, a one-hour lights out in which people all over the planet turned off their lights for one hour on a Saturday night. Sitting in the dark by myself feeling a part of a much larger action, I read Rev. Jennings’ words by candlelight.

What if in the darkest moments of life here on Earth, the world really is seeking to sow peace? Could that be why humans sleep? So peace can be sown in our hearts, minds, souls, bodies?

I hear on the news ideas about all kinds of wars. Esai Morales spoke on Real Time with Bill Maher the other night, “War on drugs, war on cancer, war on illiteracy, war on racism, war on poverty, and the ubiquitous war on terror . . . .”

We’re not doing so well on the war front, dear friends, are we? Maybe it’s because there’s no such thing as truly winning a war. I think we need an “ending of open hostilities” on all these fronts. Hostility misuses our personal energy as well as the energy of the planet.

Instead, what if we all took up the practice of letting or inviting the world to sow peace in us as we sleep? Tonight, when you get into bed, invite peace, and see how you feel in the morning. I suspect that you, like I, will feel a part of a much larger action, a “durable, perpetual field of play in which mutual respect and understanding are the norm.”

Try it. There’s only something to gain. Peace.