Peace Builders Needed!

Peace Builders Needed: Apply Within!!

If there ever was a time for Peace Builders to step forward, now is the time.  With so much anger and turmoil going on in the world, we need people of good will to step forward with tools such as integrity, cultural competency, love, insight, trust and courage.  These qualities can’t be bought or sold.  Either you have them or you don’t.  These qualities can be developed, but it has to be an inside job.   The person in search of developing peach building skills must have the will, and determination to do so.  It’s not an easy task.

Being a peace maker or builder of peace is dangerous work.  The forces of anger and evil are always present, pursuing avenues to retard or destroy the progress of peace.  Often, religion, racial identification, organizational membership, class and economic status are tools used to disturb the peace.  Once a person is seduced to believe that their cause is righteous beyond further examination, it becomes easier for them to “drink the Kool-Aid” and by any means necessary, confront the opposition.  Fighting for ones cause is noble and necessary in many instances, but the “emotional insanity” that many people blindly adopt during times of philosophical disagreement is frightening.  People, who would describe themselves as good or God-fearing, can, in an instance, become a raging, out of control, screaming, weapon carrying, vessel of hate, in the name of a righteous cause.  We have all witnessed this.

What should we do to maintain the peace while fighting for justice?   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghandi, and Cesare Chavez, had an answer that worked for them.   They used non-violent confrontation to change the world.   The three of them always fought with the end result being equality, justice and love of self and others.  There was something within each of them that allowed peace to be their motivating factor.   They changed the world with love and determination.

We need more Peace Builders who have the right stuff on the inside.  The mob will form and the fires of hate will burn with intensity with the next senseless shooting of an unarmed suspect, country invasion, mind-bending court ruling, or act of shocking violence.  We can always count on the mob!  The question is, can we count on the peaceful warriors, who will stand in the gap, with righteous indignation in their hearts, fierce determination in their souls, and the love of God as their primary weapon, who will fight the good fight to the bitter end.  What the world needs now are Peace Builders, before it’s too late!!