I believe in order to truly know peace we must first learn forgiveness.

Then once we know how to forgive we can learn how to love.

This love will be quite different than the self-centering love we all are accustomed to. Sure we love the ones who are closest to us. The people who have loved us. That love is easy as if it were unconsciously given and felt. The love you feel for those closest around you comes from forgiveness. You chose to forgive the flaws of your mothers temper or your brothers lack of hygiene. Your fathers absence or your lovers indifference.

From your forgiveness all of these short-comings does love prevail. When we practice forgiveness to total strangers we begin to see through the veil of different beliefs, different skin color, or different situations. When all these issues are stripped down you are left with one thing and that thing is a person.

Just like you or me, both traveling through space and time at the same rate. Confronted with the same challenge, to create a place in time where our existence actually means something.

Without love our existence is meaningless.

Without forgiveness we shall never know what it is to truly love and peace will remain the dream of dreamers.

with love,

John

you mean tolerance?

That was nice Smiles!!

and user, tolerance is a form of love, to a certain extent. There is such a thing as too much tolerance though.

Wow. Well written. If the world could live by that thaere would be world peace. Our devoded men and women that are fighting in the lands that are known and unknown wouldnt have to die. Marrages and relationships would become stonger. More smiles between passerbys would be possable. Thaere would be less deaths on the streats. young and old. If only the world adhered to that writing

well whatever fa you

giving a person a permanent home without them having to be kicked from burrow to brush pile with no threat of losing it is going to have to be the first thing

what do we have instead? empty mansions and trailers occupied by some poor donkey with nine kids