Happy Mother's Day!

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace. ...
Julia Ward Howe

Happy Mother's Day!

http://blog.kkorner.net/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.html

Peace Prayer

May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over someone's accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety.

May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate the illiterate, love the unloved,
compete to do the right thing instead of winning at any cost,
be heroes that teach our children to
make the world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war,
stand up and speak out against things that are wrong
instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else,
demand honesty from our governments,
demand honesty from ourselves.

May we each take responsibility for our own actions
and realize that by refusing to change ourselves,
we condone all the evils in the world.
If one person changes, they teach others by example,
who in turn change and teach more,
one person becomes as a pebble rolling down a mountain,
picking up more pebbles as it continues,
becoming an avalanche of change.
It can happen, it must happen, it will happen.

To make this prayer work, you have to change yourself.

Copyright 1997 Don Morris.

Peace Prayer

http://blog.kkorner.net/2006/12/peace-prayer.html

Someday....

Celtic Woman Someday Lyrics

Someday, when we are wiser
When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray someday we may yet
Live to live and let live

Someday, life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
And greed will not pay
Godspeed, this bright millenia
On it's way, let it come someday

Someday our fight will be won, and
We'll stand in the sun, in
That bright afternoon
'Til then, on days when the sun
Is gone, we'll hang on
If we wish upon the moon

There are some days, dark and bitter
Seems we haven't got a prayer
But a prayer for something better
Is the one thing we all share

Someday, when we are wiser
When the whole world is older
When we have love
And I pray someday we may yet
Live to live and one day, someday
Someday life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
And greed will not pay

Godspeed this bright millennia
Let it come
If we wish upon the moon

One day, someday....soon



We went to see "This Film is Not Yet Rated" last night and there were previews for several films that made me feel this was apropos today.

Someday....

http://blog.kkorner.net/2006/09/someday.html

A day to remember

Today is a day that will live in infamy. It is an overused phrase, but so true. I believe with all my heart that we should remember the victims, and never forget this day, but I can't stomach the politicalization of the event.

This was the result of the refusal to understand each other and accept each others differences- on both sides. Instead of learning from it, the breach is becoming worse.

Don't get me wrong, the people who planned and did this tragedy were wrong. There is no gray on the fact that the action was wrong and caused horror and anguish on an entire nation. It is the use of the event as an excuse for war, and to become that which we feared. We are now terrorists.

My dearest wish? Peace. The path to peace is not war- it never has been.

We must talk and learn from each other. We must not view others as the enemey, but as brothers. People who think and act differently from us, but who are still human beings and still deserve dignity and respect.

May god have mercy on us all, in whatever form s/he is actually in.

A day to remember

http://blog.kkorner.net/2006/09/day-to-remember.html