"War"
is the only word in the english language I know of that connotes total,
all out devotion of life, limb, treasure, heart, soul.... HOW it wages
that is the issue - VIOLENCE (Violating what is right for others) is NOT
the only way to Wage War. UNVIOLENTLY WAGING LOVING is the other way -
WITH YOUR ENTIRE BEING CONSTRUCTING a better reality... as a desperate
medical team might fighting for the life
of a child - Frenetic, TOTAL EFFORT, of CONSTRUCTION, CREATION.... NOT
DESTRUCTION. Agents of Peace, of a better world MUST step up to face
this. 99% of the otherwise best hopes for Peace wind up hiding behind
such notions as 'peace is the way.' Peace IS the way of Death... coffin.
WAGING A WAR OF LOVING by whatever words, or no words at all, is what
describes the work of True Unviolent Activists bringing about Peace...
throughout history. "I consider myself a soldier... tho a soldier of
Peace." Gandhi. Me too. You?
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I
was on my every morning, 6 days per week, self appointed campaign to
pick up every condom, shard of glass, candy wrapper... that covered the
12 acre campus of the blighted, 95% poverty, 1200 student Columbus
Elementary in Chester PA yr 2000... before any students or staff arrived each morning. Spotless was what I wanted for them. Probably the best application of my
masters degrees in Business and Psychology I've ever applied. Almost killed me, literally. Often by mid afternoon I was literally paralyzed with exhaustion. "I get it
now," said a voice. It was Mr. Jackson, school custodian. I barely knew
him, I was new to the school. "Oh. You get what," I asked. "You are at
war; you are at war for these kid's lives," he said. I'd never thought
of it that way. I didn't really understand why I was killing myself in
this way. My heart, my Soul, just said "DO IT," so I did. But he was
right. I was at all out, total, pay any personal price war for the kids
in that school, otherwise bound for early prison and death. I've been
at war for humanity my entire adulthood but only when Mr. Jackson put
those words to it did I understand.
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