Are you ready to become a source of Peace???

I love the article. I hope you do too!! Makes me rethink a lot of things like being pro-peace and committing myself to peace instead of "Anti" anything............. Love, Michele
Inner Peace Philosophy
(How Deliberate Creators Propogate Peace)

1. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
you feel guided to take your focus off the external world. Deliberate Creators know that we are, at all moments, creating our future. Some of us are doing this creating 'deliberately' while others, by getting caught up in the swirl of events that surround us, are doing this creation 'by default'.
Which do you choose: to create deliberately or by default?

2. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
in relationship with others, you strive to bring the focus to areas of harmony and agreement instead of conflict and discord. Deliberate Creators appreciate that what we resist, persists and, therefore, make thoughtful determinations of where attention should be placed.

Which relationships in your life could benefit from a short time spent focusing on areas of agreement?


3. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
you let go of the idea that you can only feel peaceful when everything around you is going a certain way and, instead, recognize that you have the power within you to choose to experience peace.

Who (or what) have you allowed to destroy your sense of peace - and how can you reclaim it?

4. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
you notice that, when someone 'pushes your buttons', instead of expending your energy trying to get the other person to change, you search inside yourself and ask, 'what happened inside me that led me to react that way to you?' Whenever we feel a painful emotion (anger, resentment, jealousy, fear, depression, desire for vengeance, grief) this simply means that someone has activated one of our wounds and a powerful opportunity for healing lies right in front of us.

The next time you find that your 'buttons' have been pushed, where will you focus your attention -- inward or outward?


5. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
you find yourself put off by anti-war demonstrations and the notion of judging and condemning the players in a dispute. Deliberate Creators understand that we cannot be engaged in a battle and be a source for peace at the same time.

Where are you investing your energy -- in a battle against war or in a commitment to peace?

6. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
you find yourself focusing on what you are wanting instead of what you are not wanting. Deliberate Creators recognize that what we focus on expands and they give careful thought as to what they want to have expand in their lives.

What in the world would you like to see expand?


7. You'll know that you are Deliberately Creating Peace when...
instead of praying for an outside force to bring peace to others, you commit to being one who radiates peace from within.

Are you ready to become a source of Peace?


by Elyse Hope Killoran

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Below is the poem that Mark wrote and read last night at the candle light vigil.
It was great to see so many people show up in the cold and rain to honor our troops, but to say enough is enough. Buzz read a long list of all the Ohio soldiers killed in Iraq. Very sad.-Michele



how do you support the troops?

Support our troops,
but what does that mean?
Does it mean that
speaking out against an unjust war
Is an act of treason?

There are those who think so.

Does it mean that
when you question the motives
That brought a nation to war,
you embolden the enemy?

There are those who think so.

In this country there exists
A blind patriotism
that demeans democracy,
there exists a red, white and blue bias
that refuses truth.

How do you tell a mother that her son died for a lie?
How do you tell a son his father died for politics?
How do you tell a daughter her mother will be gone for
the rest of her life, and for no reason you can find?

Tonight across the country
there are candles burning
In memory of lives wasted,
of families destroyed

And there is nothing else to do but honor that memory.

But tonight, we also start anew,
for the state of the union is strong,
and because we are strong,
we must be the change
We wish to see in the world.

We move forward with love from here.

(by markk, recited in front of New Court House, Medina, Ohio 3/19/07)