WHAT IS PEACE?

Good morning my friends! It is a grand day to be alive, full of the Spirit’s love. I need to share how grateful and happy it makes me to see all your wonderful faces here today. I hope to keep you awake, but, if I do see anyone dosing off, I’ll start my rousing rendition of Kum Ba Ya, My Lord, Kum Ba Ya!

When I was first invited to participate in this Conference, I felt indeed privileged and honored. Then, a sense of fear took over my body when I truly pondered over the title of this keynote address, “What Is Peace?” Oh my! After 25 years of working for peace, I had never defined the word peace. But, many a great men and women before me have given much more dedicated thought about definitions. I won’t bore you with more definitions, and I won’t get you intellectually stuck in a box by forcing yet another confined and limited definition strapped upon your tired backs. What I do know beyond a shadow of doubt is that peace is NOT just the mere absence of war and instability – it is the presence of true justice with compassion and love. Yet, the human heart must be full of this kind of peace well before it can practice peace in some other venue, for instance the Middle East. We must find our own inner peace first, before we can help transform the world into a peaceful living environment. All of us must have a new awakening of our minds, hearts and souls. But, how must this begin, you say? What must we do as individuals? Or, as organizations?

First, all of us must under go a massive retraining program, a process of relearning what our Western Society has brainwashed us to believe. Since, the beginning of many of our births into this great cosmic universe, where science and religion blend well together, we have been inundated with corporate and government messages about what to believe, what to think, what to wear, what to eat, what to do, where and with whom all your life. It is maddening to comprehend all the filtered and slanted messages we have come to believe about ourselves and the world around us. Our Western culture as much as it pains me to say is extremely selfish and not all of that behavior comes solely from us as individuals; it came from mammoth corporate giants where profit is the bottom line, not the common good of society. It also comes from our free, democratic government. The government that many of you may still trust has supplied us time and time again with bold and outright lies. We keep forgiving them as good children of our Creator, but we stop at that point and don’t live up to our responsibility to our Creator. Our responsibility as citizens of this world, as citizens of this great United States, and as the holy, sacred living children of God is to always ask questions, and to never shrink from the powers over us, because without us there is chaos. Thomas Jefferson once said that we must continually challenge our democracy for it to truly work and remain working for thousands of years. Our Western culture has become indifferent; many disenfranchised or living on the margins of society, left without any hope! Our American dream of owning a piece of the pie has distorted our vision, and has left us with a morally bankrupt capitalism that left on its own merit will destroy all that we cherish in this world. Government, during the days of FDR was concerned with jobs, was concerned about the common good of all people, hence all the fabulous programs that developed under his fully capable administration, such as Social Security. This Administration began stricter regulations over capitalism and helped pull a country out of a deep depression. There was a time in this country not that long ago where only one parent had to work outside of the home, not anymore! There was a time to truly be proud of American craftsmanship, now it says made in China under deplorable working conditions and slave wages which are criminal! There was a time we all knew our neighbors, not anymore! There was a time a high school student was respectful and obeyed his or her teachers. Guess what? Those times and hundreds of others are lost, but if we start today, we as individuals and groups of united people can and shall overcome, and find true peace. You and I must trust the inner callings from God, the faint whispers and the actions through others as the workings of God through them. Just take a look around this room here today; everyone you’re sitting next to is a potential prophet. God is within all of us, we are a part of the Creator or Great Spirit weaving in and out of us and all of creation, including animals, plants, water and air.

This is what all of us are commissioned to do: relearn our previously learned attitudes about our Western society and how it feeds into our obsessive over-consumption of wealth, materialism, and highly wasteful, actions or inactions. This is the first phase to finding true inner peace, and it is called EDUCATION, an education which puts people above profits, not vice-versa as fundamentalists would continue to lead you towards their muddy waters. We must re-claim the Bible, and stop allowing the conservative fundamentalists from complete and utter misinterpretations that lead all good people of whatever faith into the hands of ignorance, destruction and most of all FEAR! I am one labeled liberal, who claims the Bible as one of many sources of inspired writings from our human and divine mysteries throughout thousands of years. But, if being labeled a liberal, because I love Jesus of Nazareth and view Him as my number one hero in history, and attempt everyday to walk in His non-violent, compassionate, non-judgmental and unconditional loving footsteps is what it means to be a liberal, then I am as proud as a peacock to wear the liberal nametag. And, all of us lovers of Jesus or Gandhi or Mother Teresa or Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Houses must proudly and loudly stand up and be proud to be a liberal, don’t shy away from the label. Stand united as people of faith and intelligence. Take Bible scripture classes and learn and keep learning. Don’t stop with just the Bible, read books galore from lay people and ministers and philosophers and theologians and scientists. Come to learn the vast universe and appreciate all of its glory. But, my friends you need to go beyond corporately owned mainstream news media outlets for your source of true information. Seek out other outlets worldwide via the internet. Seek education of your total balanced being, from your mind, heart and soul. Blessed are we who seek out the light of wisdom and leave behind the darkness of fear and ignorance!

As a former teacher of many years myself, I just can’t say enough about the importance of learning. Just this past week I spoke to Nora Baker, an employee for the State of Iowa. She helps kick good people off the welfare rolls and place them into any meaningless, minimum wage job, which is NOT a livable wage in this country. But, we must keep the middle-class and rich-class taxpayers happy, who evidently don’t care about people who can’t make enough money to even pay the rent. Yes, that’s what all the ruckus is about. Anywhere between $300-$450 dollars a month to pay for the poor persons rent. This is a shameless grand injustice that President Clinton signed into law! Our government used the poor and under-employed that rank in the millions to be the scapegoat to trim a little fat from our domestic budget. But, those same politicians, Democrats and Republicans had no problem spending billions of dollars on programs in poor countries to slaughter millions of human lives. It is insanity running rampant in this country! I don’t see anyone protesting to help the poor people to pay their rent. But, the conservative Fundamentalists see it their mission to gobble up all the wealth in the world. Well, I’ve digressed and went off on a tangent. I do apologize! What I really wanted to pass along to you from the nice State of Iowa employee, Nora Baker was what she said to me about the majority of people on FIP, the State assistance program in Iowa. As a former teacher, it just disgusts me. Nora said, to paraphrase, is that the majority of people that are on welfare only have a third grade to sixth grade education. How can this be in these United States of America? Iowa, whom boasts as having one of the best education systems among all fifty states and says it, ranks in the top five in the nation, then how can we have such a large majority of illiterates? In a day and age where the U.S. should be developing a better educational system to compete against the truly better educational systems found in Japan, Europe, Australia and Canada, how did we get sucked into teaching to the test, as modeled after the great lone star State of Texas, who ranks near the bottom among all 50 States? This is another travesty of justice or lack there of…this is a royal injustice for the future of our country, where only the rich will get educated someday. If anyone cares out there…our children are suffering more than any other group in the world. God help us! We must educate and do it right. I shouldn’t hear from Nora Baker, our friendly State of Iowa employee, that a young man in his twenties has four children, all from four different women, because he never heard about condoms. Let’s get real folks; there is definitely something majorly wrong in our culture.

We are NOT living out our values in today’s American society. What are our priorities? Is it making money, the infamous idol throughout mankind’s history? I’ll tell you this; it seems to be, from a casual foreign observer! As I mentioned above, education is one of the keys to opening ourselves up to others, in service to others. While in the process of relearning, we must not fail to understand the full effect and power of words, the language people use to convey an idea or thought. I have a favorite word in the Hebrew language, which some of you may already know. It is the word Tikkun. Tikkun means to mend, repair and transform the world. I love that meaning, that word and all that it should mean to us as a troubled people struggling for true peace in our own lives as well as others throughout the world. The word breathes fresh and inspiring life in its ability towards action, rather than inaction by so many millions of Americans, who can’t even be bothered to vote on Election Day. Since I turned 18, I proudly have never missed an election from President all the way down to school elections, even when I was away at Central Michigan University or in Appalachia repairing homes for the poor and old. In a simple election, we can help transform our world as Tikkun challenges us. Through our indifference, we collectively have ignored most of the world’s poor, oppressed and those struggling for real freedom and live within true peace. Most of us need to learn the words that will liberate us into transforming and changing people to care for one another.

Tikkun should lead us toward forming solidarity among all equal and fair human beings throughout the world. Solidarity means that we affirm our responsibility towards each other within our families, within our world, and within our spiritual/religious communities. We must go beyond the narrow boundaries of ethnicity, religion and geography. We must affirm the obligation to actively resist injustice and refuse to take part in it even when we can’t prove that our resistance will produce change. In solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus of Nazareth taught us, we should pray and work towards the democratization of economic and political institutions in our country and a redistribution of wealth so that all people can share equally and sustainable in the benefits of the earth. We must give hope to everyone, and meditate on having the ultimate courage to always speak truth to power! All of us are empowered as human beings to speak truth towards the powers to be. The cliché works here now and always in life that the truth shall set you free! Be courageous to speak the truth, regardless of the consequences. That is our number one hope for all creation!

A renewal of our very being must begin, based on awe, wonder and radical amazement at the mystery of the universe and the mystery of every beautiful human being on earth as a manifestation of the sacred Spirit. Presently, most of us and our institutions have become spiritually void and impoverished, acquiring ever more “STUFF” continues to provide us with an illusion of fulfillment, yet many of us remain unsatisfied up until our death, because we didn’t take the time to learn about our values and act upon them. In our capitalistic free trade economics of doom and despair for two-thirds of the world’s population, we’ve been programmed to believe the huge lies perpetuated by the media and our government that greed is good, and that the only way towards security comes from the barrel of a gun or a bomb. Have any of you here today felt anymore secure today after invading IRAQ, dirt poor, oppressed country with no weapons of mass destruction? We allowed our media and government to perpetuate the lie, and to spread fear into every American heart. Several years ago, ABC ran a special hour-long news story claiming greed is good. Much of the distorted views in our culture today have come from the media, where sex sells and cheapens all human life. Hollywood makes hands over fists of millions of dollars on movies and television where violence and vengeance reigns supreme. Our children believe it now! Remember Columbine? I highly recommend watching Michael Moore’s documentary, “Bowling for Columbine”. It is honesty in its simplest and most accurate format. Also, read “Stupid White Men,” one of Michael Moore’s bestselling books.

The truth that we must speak loudly and boldly comes through the active verb words like Tikkun. Rather than rushing about, like chickens with their heads chopped off, seeking more electronics, SUV’s, gadgets and $87 Billion more dollars for war and death in IRAQ, all of us need to increase our intellectual and spiritual level of our daily consciousness to seek out the renewal of our minds, hearts, and souls.

Americans have always been generous when it comes to charity. But, what I say to you today is charity alone without justice will always fall short. Charity alone will not pull poor people out of their poverty. We must seek out to the root causes for this poverty, that is what peace and justice is all about. Changing the structural dimensions in life that keep the majority of the world’s people in an endless, vicious cycle is what we need to actively change to benefit all creation. If these changes of justice are not met, the alternatives are horrendous to envision. This is what is taking place around the world. The misery, starvation, and immoral death of millions upon millions of people and the exploitation and destruction of the environment are taking place right now. We have global warming because of burning fossil fuels, mainly because of our love affair with cars. We are losing our priceless rain forests, which are the ingredients for future medicines and cures, so we can graze cattle for McDonalds. We are losing the rights of workers, so Wal-Mart can sell you something cheaper that came from sweatshops elsewhere. Whatever happened to the slogan that made Wal-Mart become so sweeping popular and huge among corporations? You remember, “Made in America”, or we saved a small town in Wisconsin, because we at Wal-Mart buy only American made products. Those signs have disappeared forever! Now, Wal-Mart doesn’t even pay their “associates” a livable wage. Ford and General Motors are yesterday’s news; the employer that now sets the standards for working-class America is Wal-Mart. Now, the nation’s largest employer, with 3,200 outlets in the United States and sales revenue of $245 Billion last year, (which, if Wal-Mart were a nation, would rank it between Belgium and Sweden as the world’s 19^th largest economy) doesn’t pay its workers, oh excuse me, its “associates” enough money to buy decent cars, let alone a home. According to a study by Forbes, Wal-Mart employees earn an average hourly wage of $7.50 and, annually, a kingly wage of $18,000. Just as Ford, GM and the United Auto Workers once drove up wages for its workers, now Wal-Mart drives down wages for its “associates”. This is an injustice! This is immoral! This is one of many examples where most of us idly sit by and allow these unjust actions to take place either out of fear, indifference or ignorance of the issues. Once again, educate yourself and motivate yourself to act, to be a player, a leader among God’s children. You are a prophet! Because, the prevailing silence on our parts always affects others, our inaction maintains the status quo of war and violence in the world, rather than true peace with justice.

This regional peace conference held here in the beautiful Chippewa Valley in the great State of Wisconsin is appropriately entitled, “Building A Culture of Peace,” after the very relevant United Nations Decade for Peace. It is good to know here that we don’t live in isolated vacuums or islands. We are interconnected with the entire world and universe at large, so we must move beyond our “security blankets” and step out and learn about issues on an international level to be able to spread peace here at home as well as the rest of the world.

In February of this year, I went on a peace delegation with Christian Peacemaker Teams to Iraq, then in May I went to Colombia, and in June, I went to Grassy Narrows, a native indigenous tribe in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The purpose of these trips was to widen my scope and learn what I don’t see or hear here in the U.S. They were delegations to help and be in solidarity with the innocent majority of people caught in the middle where violence and exploitation is all around them. Christian Peacemaker Teams sends out peaceful delegations to provide encouragement for individuals and communities experiencing violence, to challenge violations of human rights and promote active non-violence as a means of settling disputes. Christian Peacemaker Teams, a Chicago-based Mennonite and Quaker organization sends out short-term delegations to war torn and impoverished areas to help foster peace and understanding face to face as friends, not as enemies!

One potent example of hatred and murder hails out in the Ameriya Bomb Shelter in Baghdad, IRAQ. It was a bomb shelter located in a residential area, built in 1984 during the Iran/Iraq war supported by our government. It was bombed by an American fighter jet during the Gulf War. On the night of February 13^th, 1991, two U.S. made cruise missiles penetrated the 3 meter thick, steel reinforced concrete, which instantly incinerated the 408 innocent women and children taking refuge from the US-led bombing raids. The youngest victim was only four hours old!

The Iraqi people were kind, caring and loving people like you and me. What I saw in Iraq was young boys smiling faces, and hugs and kisses on both of my cheeks from complete strangers. As I would pass by the passionate faces of strangers, they would always greet me and put their hands upon their hearts as an expression of love and friendship. I saw many beggars, but even others living in the midst of their own very real poverty, people would still hand the beggars money. There is a lesson to be learned from the Iraqi people who are real living flesh; they are people like you and me with gorgeous and beautiful faces, still clinging onto hope through their solid and valid faith. It was the 12 years of crippling economic sanctions that were forced upon them by the US and UK that was killing hundreds of thousands of innocent children per year.

In Colombia, people are faced with constant fear of death or displacement from their village homes out in the jungles along the Magdalena and Opon rivers. Priests are threatened and killed. Union activists are shot in cold blood by the paramilitaries, which are funded by US corporations, for instance Coca-Cola and Occidental Oil. The paramilitary is also funded through the Colombian military, which receives a bulk of its funding from the US through the program called “Plan Colombia,” which states as its mission the eradication of drugs. In reality, those billions of dollars in military aid are used for counter-insurgency operations to help maintain the stability of large U.S. corporations in Colombia, where they control the natural resources, rather than Colombians controlling their own resources. Most Colombians are poor due to US foreign policies adversely affecting them, and keeping them caught in constant fear and civil unrest.

In June, I was personally greeted to Slant Lake on Anishinabe Traditional Land Use area by a couple of truly delightful loons. They were calling out to me each morning and evening – it was pure music to my ears. The loons and their relationship to me and the surrounding Boreal Forest were just spectacular. In the early morning mist, after washing my face in the cold, mercury-laden water, I would sit on a rock and listen to the loons saying “good morning Scott.” The loons were the highlight of my trip to Grassy Narrows, an Indian Reservation just north of Kenora, a small town in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.

This traditional land use area of the Anishinabe is one of the most beautiful places on earth. By just about any measuring stick, Canada’s boreal forest represents one of the world’s most valuable natural areas. It contains some of the wildest, most intact and healthy natural ecosystems in the world. This is also the home to 28 First Nations communities, whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years, and were great Stewards of this precious land, that is until the greed and violence of white men by clear-cutting it so very rapidly, so very recently.

The issue is not just about clear-cutting, but about honoring the Treaty between the white men and the natives. It’s about protecting the Treaty! Christian Peacemaker Teams’ volunteers are trained to reduce violence. One form of violence is taking more than our (white man’s) share of the trees and forcing the Anishinabe people off their traditional land.

Three years ago, I had the distinct pleasure to go to Israel and Palestine with Mideast Citizen Diplomacy, an organization that practiced true compassionate listening, a project that now Fellowship of Reconciliation uses regularly on their delegations. Yes, it was a pleasure, because the roots of three world religions come from this Holy Land. I have not nor will I ever take any sides, as I’ve ignorantly been accused of, because both sides are right, as well as wrong. Neither the Palestinians nor the Israeli’s are pure from flaws. What I encountered were countless people telling truthful stories about the profound pain and sense of fear they encountered and endured daily. From an Israeli journalist who spoke vividly about his fear of being lynched, to the Rev. Elias Chacour who spoke of his family who were forced out of their home, so that a Jewish Israeli family could move into their home. From hardship to renewed pain, from hopelessness to greater despair, from bereaved parents who lost their sons in the war, to refugees living in occupied territories treated inhumanely. Story after story testified to their truths of suffering in a land that both relish as their homelands based on history, religion and tradition. I felt an overwhelming sense of empathy for both sides. But, I also realized a failed peace plan always being promoted by the U.S. The Middle East is a taste of hell on earth!

There is just so much more that I can say about these experiences, but time does not permit. I refer you to log onto my website and read the three essays about these peace-loving delegations. The essay about IRAQ is called, “MY FRIENDS,” the essay on COLOMBIA is “CPT Light Among Darkness,” and GRASSY NARROWS is called “RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS”. Talk to me later, I’ll have information for you at my table.

What I saw was a culture of violence, not a culture of peace as described so profoundly by the United Nations. I continue to see a culture of death everywhere around the globe including right here in the States. I do NOT watch much television, but one evening recently for me to unwind and relax; I watched a show called, “Everwood,” a family-oriented show. The topic was about a young teenage boy who most of the town loved and adored. He died during an operation! It was about death and the pain of loss! This is something that most of us have experienced in our lives, the loss of a loved one, a friend or family member. When I was growing up in Utica, Michigan, while in high school, one of my best friends committed suicide. It was painful for the town and of course the school and most of all me being his closest friend. I should have read the signs better, because he had attempted suicide earlier that same year. I talked to him everyday about how wonderful life can be and to hang in there, because each new day has the possibility of providing glorious rays of sunshine. I loved Rob! Not a year goes by that I don’t think about him. My mother’s parents, my maternal grandparents (Elmer and Irene Fisher) have since both died and they were very close and special to me. I still have pangs of pain when I think about them. I cherished and loved them all very much! This is what we need to associate with when we hear about the US military’s claim of “collateral damage”. We need to associate those precious human beings as a major loss in our lives. We must feel that same pain, that heart-broken, stabbing pain in our hearts every time we hear statistics like, 11,000 children die daily around the world. Now, that’s the honest to God truth. Put a face on those valuable human statistics. Feel their pain to understand how incredibly insane war and violence is around the world. Become a part of their existence, because they are equally important as any of our loved ones. Not a single day goes by that I don’t shed a waterfall of tears for all creation. The heart-wrenching pain of losing someone or destruction of our living sacred world cuts through me daily like a knife. The pain of losing anyone anymore everyday is a pain I feel over and over, again and again like a never-ending nightmare.

A famous author by the name of Joyce Hollyday once stated the following, “Where there is no joy, God is absent. Living as we do in a world that suffers so much, two opposing possibilities can easily tempt us: either to turn our backs and live oblivious to the pain or to allow the pain to overwhelm us and despair to take up residence in our hearts. The truly faithful option is to face the pain and live joyfully in the midst of it. Contrary to what we often hear these days, life carries no guarantees of ease or comfort. The work of peace is hard. If we have committed ourselves to peace and justice, we will not escape the world’s pain, because into the pain is where prophets have walked too.”

My broad vision for us here today and for others in the future is simply this; we need to envision a world of peace through loving relationships. Hate will never drive out hate, only love can do that! Open your hearts and minds. Walk the talk. Put your wallet where your convictions are in life.

I founded a new, non-profit organization just this last March. It is a peace and justice organization weaved with spirituality as its main focus for mending, repairing, and transforming people, especially here in the U.S. We’re back to my favorite word – TIKKUN. My small but mighty organization called, “GOD BLESS THE WORLD,” is an educational foundation to help give people the truthful information and knowledge necessary to struggle for true peace and justice here in Wisconsin and every other corner of this magnificent world. We are an international, world-wide organization which has begun to challenge and inspire people’s old ways of thinking. We are obviously about truthful education, NOT propaganda. We are about peace, love and compassion. We are about restorative justice, rather than punitive! We are about justice where the precious human creature is respected and nourished as the utmost responsibility of all people within our global village. We firmly believe in a world where restorative justice prevails and replaces the old, immoral justice of vengeance. Through peace and love education, we will learn to lift up the human as a constant reminder of the Great Spirit within all of us, and to destroy any human or creation is destroying a piece of God, literally! Because, God is the universe, the entire matter and energy alive within all of us. We see God amongst everything that is alive, but especially within you, me, our next door neighbor, our postal carrier, our “associates” at Wal-Mart, our sanitation workers, our prisoners (especially those being incarcerated for drugs and sex crimes) and Presidents Clinton and Bush, Hitler or Saddam – get the point yet! All creation is precious and valuable, because the Spirit lives within. Even if you are an atheist, you are an intricate member of this cosmic universe, hence eternally vital to the web of existence. This truth, this love encompasses everything, PERIOD! We, together on this journey towards peace recognize the overwhelming importance to tear down walls, gates, fences, bars, any barrier or obstacle which blinds us from loving one another. Folks, love is peace, but the highway to peace is very long and lonely at times. Stick in there my friends, love is what it is all about, without love, there shall never be peace on earth. God Bless The World is your loving organization, so please, along the way help us towards peace as one united heart.

We must envision a world of peace through loving relationships. Where are the good peoples voices hiding? There is so much silence here in America that it is deafening, and sad. I ask you this, are they hiding behind the nationalistic flag that they have been hugging like a false idol or god? Has their so-called blind patriotism made them silent towards our Creator and all of creation worldwide? Have we forgotten where our first priority lies? It sure isn’t with our country, and the majority of Congress. It is to God or whatever name you use in your faith tradition for God? We must be dedicated and loyal to our Creator, our Universe, our World, then, and only then to our country – in that order of priority. Don’t forget, you and I are the prophets of today, not our appalling politicians or celebrities! And, I really don’t care whether they are Republicans or Democrats; there is very little difference between them both anymore! The prevailing, appalling silence by the majority of so-called good people leads one to question whether they have turned their backs against the Creator of the Universe and all the billions of beautiful people throughout the world? We should be challenging our government to stand up and do the moral and fair actions that need to be attended to today in our ever increasingly complex world. Because, if we do NOT, in the words of another great prophet, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “we will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and hateful actions of the few bad people, but for the appalling silence of the majority of good people.”

Former U.S. Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas once said; “Criticism is more than a right, it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar ritual of national adulation. All of us have the responsibility to act upon the higher patriotism, which is to love our country less for what it is than for what we would like it to be.” What happened to the great American tradition of dissent and vigorous debate that our country was formed upon? Is it lost forever? Or, are we here today going to do something? I surely hope so. Our Country, our world is in a dire emergency. When the richest fifth of humanity is earning 78 times as much as the poorest fifth, the good, silent majority of people should be taking to the streets protesting against the disparity, which is growing wider and wider each year. This is never going to achieve peace, if we continue to be fearful of speaking up. We must go home and one by one transform and educate people to the truth, so this is our mission too. Through the truth and education, we may find peace at some point in time. PEACE IS POSSIBLE! But, we must work hard for it today, tomorrow and everyday into the future. We owe it to our children and their children.

Dearest friends, I have nothing but the deepest of respect for all of you being here today. I praise you for attending this Conference and educating yourself further on the road of peace. My hope for you is that you take pieces from this entire Conference and start applying it daily into your wonderful lives. Just remember, an ancient old, Arapaho Native-American proverb, and apply it to your lives today. It goes like this, “when we show respect for other living things, they in turn respond with respect for us.”

In summation my friends, stand up and speak like prophets, because that is your destiny as well as mine! Actions speak louder than mere words, so get active today, and don’t put off what you can start today and everyday of your life.

God Bless The World, AND PEACE AND LOVE IS MY GIFT TO ALL OF YOU….THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!