Bring Harmony to Our Times

We have found ourselves in a time in which there are troubles beyond the norm.  Each day in the news we find aggression, not only in countries which are at war, but in our hometowns, where there are suddenly daily deaths at the hands of friends and foe alike.  There are missing persons.  There are robberies.

Perhaps, at least, the latter finds sensibility in the fact that our economy is devastating to the poor.  But the ongoing number of assaults and murders have no explanation.  There has been the murder of woman jogger, the murder of a 14-year-old boy, and murders of spouses.  How do we account for this?  It is an everyday occurrence. 

Are we so accepting of the concept of death due to the ongoing notion of war that seems without end that we bring it home to our neighborhoods?  If we are so callous, so apathetic with our reactions, that we can’t seem to care, how do we put an end to the insanity of murder?

We must pray and meditate that harmony be restored to our world, not just our neighborhoods, but the entire world.  We must pray not only for our own troops, for their protection, for their safe return home, but for the re-establishment of those with whom we are at war and their willingness to be at peace.  We must pray for our enemies, for them that hate us, as Jesus said. 

The bottom line is that we must focus our minds on the good within all people, that they may enjoy a good life, as we wish to enjoy our lives.  Only by allowing that all people have their needs met will we be able to restore harmony in our world, our neighborhoods, our lives.

May you be richly blessed.