Peace

Do you have a ‘tree of peace’?  It might be a ‘metaphorical tree of peace’ or a real one as in the picture where you can shelter in the ‘heat of the day’.    To have both ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ peace is something most precious but they are in short supply these days.  The pace of life exhausts us while the noise of life means silence can be hard to find.   John Lennon asked us to ‘imagine all the people living life in peace’ and yet his son told another story:

  • ‘Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces – no communication, adultery, divorce? You can’t do it, not if you’re being true and honest with yourself’ – Julian Lennon

true LOVE

Love is a ‘many splendored thing’!  So it was described in the book, film and song of 1955 but what did they mean?  People have been trying to work out what love means from the very beginning!  Boy meets girl and ‘lust’ pretends to be ‘love’.  Whereas lust surfs on the crest of the wave until it crashes spent on to the beach, love moves steadily in the depths with the strength of a whale.  The world promotes shallow definitions and poor imitations of love:

  • ‘I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I’ve done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile’ – Victoria Beckham