I don't know why my phrase I wish you Peace stirs such strange reaction sometimes. I have emails that say: it's weird; it's annoying; I don't why you say it; will you shut and stop saying that! Nope. Not doing it. Every religion on this earth has a phrase involving the wish of peace. It's universal and a loving concept.
It is in fact, the moment that is my favorite part of the catholic mass. If you're not catholic, the masses are long. But after the very structured ritual of faith in a mass, there is a moment where we all unbend and say Peace be with you and shake hands with the people near us. I don't know why but that moment always filled me with more a sense of spiritual peace than any other part of the mass. It is the moment where I get it and really connect to my faith.
I started writing I wish you Peace, always somewhere on a note or card or newsletter, after 9/11, when I started seeing young men and women who had grown up with my girls going into the military and into war zones. I can imagine nothing harder than being a mother and sending your child off to a war zone. I also find it very sad that we have been a country with our amazing young men and women somewhere on this earth in a war zone for nearly 15 years. We have been a country at war almost my youngest daughter's entire life. And worse, it has become the new normal in our country and people hardly think about it.
I think about it every day and will continue to until every young man or woman I've watched grow up(and all those amazing young men and women I do not know), laughing and playing in a school yard, playing sports, coming to my house for birthday parties or slumber parties or maybe only graduating school with one of my daughters; I will wish it until they comes home. Until their mothers are from worry, and there is peace on this earth.
So yes, I wish you Peace. Peace be with you.
It is in fact, the moment that is my favorite part of the catholic mass. If you're not catholic, the masses are long. But after the very structured ritual of faith in a mass, there is a moment where we all unbend and say Peace be with you and shake hands with the people near us. I don't know why but that moment always filled me with more a sense of spiritual peace than any other part of the mass. It is the moment where I get it and really connect to my faith.
I started writing I wish you Peace, always somewhere on a note or card or newsletter, after 9/11, when I started seeing young men and women who had grown up with my girls going into the military and into war zones. I can imagine nothing harder than being a mother and sending your child off to a war zone. I also find it very sad that we have been a country with our amazing young men and women somewhere on this earth in a war zone for nearly 15 years. We have been a country at war almost my youngest daughter's entire life. And worse, it has become the new normal in our country and people hardly think about it.
I think about it every day and will continue to until every young man or woman I've watched grow up(and all those amazing young men and women I do not know), laughing and playing in a school yard, playing sports, coming to my house for birthday parties or slumber parties or maybe only graduating school with one of my daughters; I will wish it until they comes home. Until their mothers are from worry, and there is peace on this earth.
So yes, I wish you Peace. Peace be with you.
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