Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called children of God.
Matthew 5:9

‘How does peace come about?

Through a system of political treaties?...
Through the big banks, through money?
Or through universal peaceful rearmament in order to guarantee peace?

Through none of these, for the single reason that in all of them peace is confused with safety ...
peace must be dared.

It is the great venture. It can never be safe.’

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Could it be that we are teetering on the brink
Of an outbreak of peace?

Could it by that by embracing one another
Deep peace could be known,
Here and now?

Where we work against the tyranny of war
and delight in our humanity.

Where suspicion and terror
Are replaced with trust and hope.

Let us take the risk -
To make peace with one another
Live in peace with one another
And be at peace with ourselves.

Anthea Cox

God weeps over God’s world, aching because of
conflict ...

God depends on you to use your influence on the
powerful to use their power for justice, for peace, for
compassion, for gentleness, for caring, for sharing.
God - Emmanuel, God with us, with you - has no one
but you to help God make this world hospitable to
peace and justice.

God bless you.

Desmond Tutu Message delivered on
21 September, 2004, to mark the observance of
the International Day of Prayer for Peace.