Father,

To be a peacemaker, we need to start at home, within ourselves. How can we be much help to the world if we cannot feel peaceful inside. This is the great secret you want us to know, Father. An important key that your wonderful son came to this world to teach us. A peaceful world begins when we loosen our grasp on our resentments, our anger, our disappointments, our frustrations and grief. We make lists of them and pile them up waiting for the day when we will be vindicated, that someone will finally declare us right. Our bitterness eats away at our ability to truly live. The retribution we are looking for comes when have become the fulfillment of that Love that You created us to be. The Love that Your Son came to show us how to be.

You want us to know that we have to let go of every thought and feeling that divides us and keeps us separated and find a reconciliation within ourselves. To be able to be a real peacemaker, it is the peace within ourselves that becomes a source of peace for all we meet. “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” (Matthew 5:23-24)

Father we ask that you bring us miraculous solutions. We ask that the world rise up from the fighting and warring and realize that we are the love that you created us to be. To really feel that love inside of us and to be nothing but that love. “Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:5)

In Peace,

As Love,

Amen.