No. 80 To Find Peace

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Opening Words
If There Is To Be Peace
If there s to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.
Lao-tse

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Directions: Read this through twice and reflect on the reading in silence. Then begin the session. This session is almost in the form of a koan. It starts with a story from the desert monks: “Abba Joseph said to Abba Pastor: ‘Tell me how I can become a monk.’ The elder replied ‘If you want to have rest in this life and also in the next, in every conflict with another one say, “Who am I?” and judge no one.”’ Just what does abba Joseph’s story mean to you? Who are you? How do you find peace?

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Closing Words
Go In Peace
Go in Peace, Live simply, gently, at home in yourself.
Act Justly. Speak Justly
Remember the depths or your own compassion.
Forget not your power in the days of your powerlessness.
Do not desire to be wealthier than your peers,
And stint not your hand in charity.
Practice forbearance. Speak the truth or speak not.
Take care of yourself as bodies, for you are a god gift.
Crave peace for all people of the world, beginning with yourselves,
And go as you go with the dream of that peace alive in your heart.
Rev Mark Belletini