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Happy December!

We are busy working on Christmas cards—but I am going to remember to take time to think about  peace and hope and love during the holiday season. –Joy

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Walk with peace

“So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide,” John Lewis once said. I found this quote in the book The Way of Peace—Readings for a Harmonious Life. –Joy

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Silence and peace

“Silence is the beginning of peace,” Joan Chittister once said.           I found this quote in the book The Way of Peace—Readings for a Harmonious Life. –Joy

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Peaceful and vengeful

A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about his feelings. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful, angry and violent. The other wolf is peaceful, loving and compassionate. I found this short story in the book The Way of Peace–Readings for a […]

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Kindness and peace

“Kindness is essential to inner peace,” the Dahlai Lama once said. I found this quote in the book The Way of Peace—Readings for a Harmonious Life. –Joy

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Washington’s wish for peace

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,” George Washington once said.

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Moments to remember

I am trying to remember what we did each day during our vacation in Bellingham, but the days are jumbled together in my mind. I remember sitting on a picnic table near the water while we ate pastries for breakfast, eating Polish crepes and pierogies at Magdalena’s in Fairhaven and watching a man fly 67—yes, […]

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Be still

Rushing. I think I have lots to do. Maybe a bit overwhelmed. “I’ve been thinking,” says Emily St. John Mandel in her book Sea of Tranquility, “a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.” –Joy

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Truth and wisdom

“No one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom,” says Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. “We make progress by listening to each other.”

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One year of war

February 24, 2023, marks one year of war for Ukraine’s people. One year ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Russia that the consequences would be “an abundance of pain, filth, blood and death….War is a huge calamity. This calamity carries a huge cost—in every meaning of this world.” Say a prayer for the people of […]

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