Be a Peacemaker
A s I write this blog this morning, I'm sitting outside on our back porch on the first cool morning of the Fall. I've got a dog in my lap, there's a cat outside in the grass, and Chloe the umbrella cockatoo is on her favorite high perch enjoying the breeze, preening herself. A truck just drove by on the street outside and she shouted in her quacky Muppet voice “Hi Chloe!” I feel very happy this morning. It's election day 2020, and there are people right now heading off to the polls to cash their vote for their favorite candidates. This is not a political rant, nor am I inviting the same as a response to this blog. This is a call for peace, for kindness, for calm, for love, for consideration for our fellow human being. In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said many poignant things, but the one I want to focus on right now is Matthew 5:9. It reads "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” Many people have wrongly deciphered this st