Peace is Universal – A Pictorial

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Many cultures and religions focus on peace, and with the events of the last couple of weeks, not to mention the last year around the world, it is imperative that we remind ourselves that peace is possible, through us, and around us as we go about our daily lives.
Be peace.
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Peace Grove at the St. Kateri Shrine in Fonda, NY.
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Smudging ceremony at the World Peace and Prayer Day Interfaith Prayer Service at the St. Kateri Shrine in Fonda, NY.
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St. Francis of Assisi.
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.

A blue square in support of eradicating antisemitism. Click photo for more information.
We’ve been singing this song in my church. I remember it from my childhood, and it easily came back to me.
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A Dream Catcher that I bought recently in Canada. I have slept with a dream catcher for decades. Traditionally, they catch the bad dreams and they dissipate.
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