Sounds of Peace

                                                            
                                              U.N.  PEACE BELL

This ancient symbol of Japanese culture represents the efforts for establishing peace between warring nations and people with different world views. 

In 1994, there was a special ceremony marking the fourtieth anniversary of the Japanese Peace Bell. On that occasion, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said: "whenever it has sounded, this Japanese Peace Bell has sent a clear message. The message is addressed to all humanity. Peace is precious. It is not enough to yearn for peace. Peace requires work -- long, hard, difficult work."

Many are the obstacles to true world peace.  A goal which for many seems unrealistic and unattainable.  Still there is hope and faith which must view the future in a way which creates more ideas and space for peaceful co-existence of peoples and nature alike.  It is not enough to just protect our own small footprint and ignore the larger ramification's of what our individual actions are creating on the larger world platform. To ignore such things is to destroy our own future existence and our children's future.

So, despite the seeming impossibility of the task at hand - we must take hold of the ideas embodied in the word P-E-A-C-E and mold our thoughts and actions so that we begin to build that bridge into the future where all people are free and possess life, liberty and happiness in a violence - free society, immersed in the myst of a new day - born from the mind of  Infinite Love.