Today's Theme: Contribution
Honor your contribution to peace.
Theme for the 3rd day of the month:
If you’re reading this today, it’s most likely because you care about peace. And because you care, you have something important to do. Your contribution to peace is unique, and it’s personal. It’s shaped by your visions and values, and by what’s most important to you in life. Today’s theme invites you to reflect on your personal contribution to peace, and to recognize the power of linking your efforts with the contributions of others.
As we link our individual efforts for peace, we create a dynamic force for healing and change. We call this force the rhythm of peace. It enfolds the many colors, sizes, shapes, and textures of our diverse expressions into an artistic harmony, one that honors each individual contribution while affirming our collective strength. It grows each day as more of us add our voices.
We don’t all do the same things, and we don’t do the same things in the same ways. Our personal rhythms of activity, involvement, and energy do not rise and fall together. Not everyone is inclined towards politics and activism. Not everyone wants to meditate. We don’t all speak the same language, and we don’t have the same habits. Some of us have broad outreach extending far beyond our personal circumstances. Others of us express our care in more private ways. We don’t need to change this.
Our different expressions can accomplish what needs to be done. These differences need not be occasions for collision. It’s the variety of our individual expressions that gives the rhythm of peace its power to bring about change. Whether each individual effort is judged large or small by outer standards is not important; each genuine expression is necessary and enriches us all.
There is great diversity among the many healthy actions for peace, as these expressions arise from every culture and every faith in the world. Genuine progress towards peace is made every day as we link our own efforts with the efforts of others. We multiply our impact when we support, encourage, and inspire each other to take new and creative actions for peace.
Today’s theme affirms our individual efforts as a necessary part of a world symphony—a harmonious sounding of many voices. It’s an invitation to honor your unique contribution to peace—wherever you are in the process of discovering and expressing it—and to welcome the contributions of others.
Doing so will help you connect to the larger story unfolding in the world, a story in which each of us has a part. As we unite our efforts for peace in the spirit of respect and appreciation, we will make progress.
Claim your voice for peace today…
for yourself,
for your family,
for the earth,
for the world.
Check back tomorrow for a new theme!
