Peace can be anything an individual feels to look at it as. Peace can be a homeless man getting a hot meal from a stranger. Peace can be a child finding a home away from home. Peace can be wars coming to an end. Peace can be enemies now becoming friends. Peace is whatever you find calmness and contentment as. With money issues, job issues, stress, wars within countries and within ourselves and individual troubles, the world has yet to find peace.
Money is hard to come by these days. I believe it’s due to how America has become. America has become a lazy country. Effort and persistence is rare to find now a days. No one wants to go out and do what they have to do to succeed. Now days, the mindset of a genuine slacker is ‘things have to be handed to me because I can’t get it by myself.’ If you’re at the top, you don’t think to help those looking up at you from the bottom. I’ve heard before; if you’re aiming for peace, make it with your enemies and strangers, not friends and those you already love.
Stress, I believe is one of the main reasons peace isn’t formed completely in America. If you look at it at another point of view, lack of peace is the main cause of stress as well. But the thought of peace is what keeps many going.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way- A.J. Muste.
I could talk about the many wars that lead to nothing but more enemies, retaliation and of course, more wars, but for what? We know the problems we just can’t seem to find the solution. America isn’t ready for peace. Fighting isn’t the answer to everything. Peace has to be attained before anything can go right from here on out, for a better America. The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There are so many things going on in the world lately. Things that I’m aware of but I’m ashamed to admit, it’s never truly fazed me. So much hurt and sorrow. So many living today, fearing whether they’ll make it to see another tomorrow. Families living and working to meet ends. Children growing up in the streets becoming enemies with those who were once friends. Who cries for those looked over? Who’s willing to lend a shoulder? Without hope and someone willing to be the brave first to make others follow, we’re a hurting America.
Peace be still. Matthew 8:23-27
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