Peace
It’s a nice word: peace. A word that brings to mind a bucolic scene of green grass for miles as the green fades with distance into mountain scenery with children playing without a care in the world. Those children will grow up, each with a different outlook and some with a nasty disposition. This is the cause of sameness without peace. The scene itself fades into the distance as we become adults and childhood goes the way of all things remembered, a distant haze of better days. The laughter ceases to be at the lips and recedes back into the mind to form memories, some good, some bad. This is not what God intended for us and, knowing this to be true at seventy-seven now, this is what we have lost for thinking for ourselves with free will.
Free will. The decision to make choices whether good or bad. Whether positive or negative and most of us have chosen less wisely at times. It is with bad choices of will that we cause ourselves or others to suffer or to be killed for no good reason.
The bible is a grouping of words and thoughts which, if read properly and with decorum of mind, lead us all to a better platform for understanding what it is that we are. We don’t know what we are until we make choices. The good news is that we can always go back to the good from the bad, for most of us. If we have made evil choices those choices have negatively affected others. Good choices bring equilibrium. Poor choices eventually lead to killing. Killing another is the most grievous choice we can ever make.
Peace, then, is a choice but we are imperfect so good and bad choices are made on a second to second basis all over the world. The ripples of evil choices bring war, greed, avarice, rape, stealing and murder. All that we do is based on choice. God did not want slaves so we were allowed free will. This is where it comes from and this is what we should begin to understand about our world. It isn’t a nice place because of choices made. It was not planned to be this way so we have only ourselves to blame for the choices we make.
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