In direct response to the London bombings, and in recognition of the great ongoing need for peace within our hearts and throughout the world, I am issuing this challenge to all who long for peace, let your voice be heard. Write one piece for peace, be it a poem, article, short story, song, or letter and share it with others in some way before December 31, 2005.
WHO
Writers, ministers, musicians, moms, and anyone else who feels the need for peace. If you feel scared or angry, frustrated or helpless, don't shut down, speak up! Take one positive action step to promote a greater experience of peace in the world.
WHAT
Write one piece:
Write about some aspect of peace or peacemaking that you're passionate about, from inner peace:
to world peace:
* share your feelings and concerns
* challenge the status quo
* ask questions
* educate
* pose solutions
* imagine a peaceful world
* suggest action steps to get us there
WHERE
Sharing your writing about peace with others is as important as the writing itself. Some ways to get your writing out into the world:
WHEN
Write your piece and start circulating it (as best you can) before December 31, 2005.
WHY
This is my piece for peace.
What's yours?
Come to http://www.aPassionForPeace.com and
email: julie@apassionforpeace.com
Yesterday's London bombings remind us that we need to remain vigilant as peacemakers. That the need is as great now, as ever, to cultivate peace within our own hearts, and to share that peace with our family, friends, community, and beyond.
As writers, we are able to articulate the longing for peace that so many feel. Yet through the hard-won wisdom of our own experience, we're able to do more than just share an expression of our collective grief, we're able to offer insight, compassion, a spiritual perspective, and practical ideas--to help spread the seeds of peace throughout the world with our writing. So I am throwing down the gauntlet and proposing a challenge.
I challenge each and every writer who longs for a more peaceful world to write an article on some aspect of cultivating peace (from inner peace to world peace), before this year is through. Then to get that article out into the world, whether through submitting it to a magazine or anthology, creating an ebook, putting it on your web site, hanging it on your front door, or passing it out at your local mall on a busy Saturday afternoon.
My new blog, A Passion for Peace, is a place where you can post your commitment to writing an article, share its highlights, let everybody know when and where it’s going to be published, or post the article itself.
Your article can be spiritual or practical. You can dig deep or keep it light. All I ask is that you make a commitment to share your own passion for peace, by writing an article on some aspect of peacemaking, before December 31, 2005.
Julie Isaac
http://www.writingspiritresources.com