Good Morning,
I am more awake than I thought I would be this morning. I have been burning the candle at both ends and it has started to catch up with me. I am clinging to a hot mug of Door County Spicy Nut Cracker Coffee and now it is time to write.
Romans 12:18 If is is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone .
December 7th 1941 was the day that the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor and was drawn into World War Two. Not many survivors of that day are still alive. But as a nation we remember them and that day. I say thank you to those veterans still with us from that war. World War Two was supposed to be the war that ended all wars. As I write this bombs are being dropped in the Ukraine, so the war to end all wars was fought and yet there are still wars going on. Peace just doesn't seem to take hold of this earth. I can't imagine anyone wanting war and in all reality there is nothing that shouldn't be able to be worked out.
Friends and family, the overall world scene is probably not within our control. But how many of us are still at war with old friends, family, coworkers, neighbors or others we differ with? Why do we continue to let war rage within us over things that could be worked out or forgiven. When we think of war we visualize bombs, battleships, planes and large armies. But within our hearts wars rage without weapons. The weapon we have within us is an anger or hatred that we fight on with day after day. As bombs usually damage the landscape, a war that ravages within us also takes a toll on the heart and mind it lives in.
As we head toward Christmas, lets stop the wars of the heart and leave them in the past. Reach out if that is what is needed. Forgive others without expecting anything in return. Make your surrender unconditional.
Food for thought.
Marty
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