'Tis the Season for Peace on Earth

As I drove home from an interview with an engaged couple about their wedding ceremony, my attention was attracted by a large billboard beside the Interstate. It showed a childlike drawing of Santa in a large red sleigh (which looked a bit like a bath tub), drawn by a 2-legged, red-nosed reindeer, and read simply "I Wage Peace.org."

Intrigued, I looked the organization up on the web as soon as I got home. Their website stated the following: "I Wage Peace.org is dedicated to inspire Peace Makers through education, film, creative advertising, information distribution, and links to world-class peacemaking organizations."

A visit to their site explains this organization's program better than I can in this brief post, and it's well worth some exploring. For instance, among nine actions listed under the heading "Everyone Can Wage Peace" were to support and/or join peacemaking organizations (dozens are listed on the site), write letters to the editor, and pray for peace.

I want to just mention that one of my long-time favorite peacemaking organizations is the American Friends Service Committee, since I didn't notice it on this particular site. Nonviolent action is so important in our war-intoxicated world.

At the same time, even the most dedicated peacemaking will never permanently succeed unless and until people awaken to their true Identity as Conscious Being. Separation will continue to appear until the profundity of Oneness is realized. As Dr. Kenneth G. Mills noted in his book Given to Praise (Sun-Scape Publications, 1976):
"You are not a man of a nation.
You are a Light experience,
Or a Conscious experience,
And only secondarily a person with a nationality.
Your are Conscious Experience
Primarily."

This realization definitely can, and must, be engaged by everyone.

Pray for peace, yes, and let your prayer resound with the rejoicing that the Ineffable One knows nothing of separation, chaos, or strife, but only its own glorious Allness. And That is the true Identity to know and Be!

In this season when peace is on so many minds and hearts, Blessings!