It is unbelievable that the media are still full of programs that shows the most primitive part of our human race’s activities, war. In all its forms and ways, the idea to solve a conflict with violence is the most primitive. For thousands of years nothing has changed. The earliest known history records tell us how wars have been causing misery, pain and suffering .
I wonder how it is possible that people in the highest places of the governments of great nations still cling to the most primitive ways of behavior. When will they come up with the new approach? When will their brains grow up and will they become real human beings? And when will they apply the teachings of Jesus whom they proclaim to follow ???
Maybe not in my lifetime. Still it is my duty as messenger to tell about the new way. Hopeless as it may sound, a future without war is worked on. A large group of people pray and think constantly about ways to stop the production of weapons, to counteract the ancient sentiments of revenge, violent actions and all other things that cause suffering. The people who do these prayers, know how others suffer. On TV we witness the suffering in war zones far away , which is nothing compared to being there.
If only Bush could be in the next house that is blown apart by an Israeli tank shell . If Osama Bin Laden could walk next to one of his bombs going off. If Sharon could live some time in one of the Palestinian refugee camps. If Central Intelligence Agency officer What’s your name could get the electrodes attached to his own genitals, and if my neighbour himself could get a very hard punch in the face from his wife when he smells of strange perfume. Then maybe we should get a little less violence tomorrow.
It takes a while to brake old habits. How long did women not speak up after being abused? In Switzerland women could vote only recently. Changes come slow, but if you help, they come sooner.
Pray with us. Pray silent, pray loud, pray singing, while you work, while you eat or walk or sex, pray at all times for peace, if that is the only thing you can do. Think as if every day it is Christmas again. Study peace, because war is so primitive, is for undeveloped nitwits. Soldiers are men and boys that have never learned to love, compassion, forgiveness and togetherness. They are encouraged to develop the basest instincts of ancient behavior, the predator, the destroyer, the killer. Not even animals make war on their own sort. Pray that the soldier will learn to make something, to create, to think , to write and read in stead of destroy. Pray to help your violent neighbour, that he may calm down and become a real person. That the next man in uniform will not abuse his position and harass someone.
And try to use less paper to preserve the forests, use a smaller car to emit less greenhouse gasses, use non-ozone-depleting coolant in your airco, do not double bag a small thing from the shop, try to preserve our earth actively, not with prayer alone. Believe it or not, we are all together on this one and only home, our Earth. Hurting your Earth is ultimately hurting yourself.