| A time for peace |
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| Written by Cindy Eschliman |
| Friday, 27 March 2009 18:17 |
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I am leaving soon for “Dinner in Abraham’s Tent: Conversations on Peace.” I am very excited about this event where I will be dining with people of different faiths and attending 3 separate worship services: a Jewish Shabbat service, an Episcopal Evening Prayer Service and a Muslim Evening Prayer service. I find this very exciting to see the different religious traditions open themselves to each other for exciting conversations regarding peace. This is encouraging in a world where peace seems to have become what once was, but can no longer be. I love Ecclesiastes 3:1-8: There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. “A time for peace,” beautiful thing. I pray for you in your own conversations, pray for you in your own community, own school, own workplace and in our country that you may find the peace of Christ. I challenge you today to meditate on this Ecclesiastes passage and discover what you find in it yourself. |
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