If a picture is worth a thousand words, then perhaps I'll let the images and videos presented here speak for themselves.
Where and How do you plan do spend eternity?
In Heaven?
Yes, who among us would love to "gnash their teeth" in hell forever anyways?
But what if there wasn't any Heaven?
In the Millenial reign, you say.
Perhaps. But what if it would take decades or even centuries before that age comes?
What are you going to do? How would you live your life? When will you start loving your neighbors UNCONDITIONALLY?
When are you going to begin speaking kindly of others?
Of "Samaritans?"
Only AFTER they get converted to your beliefs?
When would you start LOVING YOUR ENEMIES and learn the ways of a weaned child putting his hands on a cobra's den figuratively speaking?
When will you overcome evil with good---hatred by love?
Until that age comes?
But all that matters right now is the present---not the past, nor the future. What about today?
Are you just going to be a fence-sitter and watch ... ?
Listen then and watch these videos with an open mind and an open heart. Then listen to the cry of the children.
While waiting for that utopic paradise to come ... is it war and hostility you want?
Or peace and tolerance? Again, I invite you all to watch these presentations:
And lastly, here's a thought-provoking song from a angelic child named Billy Gilman:
Listen to their cry ...
Love and Peace is an individual choice. Not membership and neither is it being affiliated to any religous group or organization (as though one starts loving only after he becomes "converted" to a certain religio-political group) ...
So I'm not encouraging you to join any of those groups above. If by joining them would make you feel like signing an "allegiance" with the "anti-christ." (:
Because like I said, Love and Peace is an individual choice. As it is written: "each one of us will give an account of himself to God"---to LOVE.
And LOVE is a reality.
And once you become aware of this reality, once you learn to embrace it, you no longer need artificial crutches to guide you but are led with the light of eternal Love in your hearts to live your life to the fullest.
So live your life today as you would live your life in the future .. and by then you would have absolutely no regrets.
Until that day till all are one, when there would be no more dividing walls between us. Till the day where every man may worship and love freely and openly without hindrance, until the day when the "lion dwells peacefully with the lamb," I wish you all the blessings of Perfect Peace.
If you can't do it for yourselves, then at least do it for your children, and for your children's children.
"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there."
Mother Teresa
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
Black Elk
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
William Gladstone
"When my heart is at peace, the world is at peace."
Chinese Proverb
Look to this Day, for it is life. The very life of life. In its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty . . .
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
