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Good morning! I am waking to a damp day. The world does need its drink, or it would all be desert! Rain renews, at least if it’s a normal amount of rain. Coffee tastes good, and I am underway!

Joyce Hilfer’s Thoughts: I opened to page 116 in “To Everything There is a Season. Chapter 14. Title “A time of war, and a time for peace____” Below this it reads. “Whether I am walking in the rain___ or trudging in the snow___ I know the pressure of your hand___ to help me as I go___ along life’s path though tired my soul___ I know I must be true___ the purpose and the reason for___ the love I know of you___ To lift my chin and steadfast be___ to keep a clear, dry eye___ To know that never in the world___ would you ever make me cry___ will prayerfully with you___ though you be far away___ My heart is happy just to know___ your coming back one day.” (I love her thoughts; they always seem fitting.)

The following is what caught my eye, as I think of the things happening “out there” in the world these days.

“There have always been anxious ages, times when it seemed life could not possibly continue as it was. Since the first record of events there seems to have been more passion than compassion, more giving than receiving, more fear than hope.

There is little use in man’s (or woman) denying his anxiety when it shows so plainly in the way he drives his car, the manner in which he blasts out at others, blaming them an accusing everyone of being the cause of his (or her) troubles.

The fault for all anxiety lies at the center of the one who finds trouble everywhere. (I had to think about this a minute. And found I aggreged in that it means what we think about is what creates our anxieties, how we are thinking keeps them going. Our bodies respond.) ___This is a fact that mankind does not want to admit, but there are natural laws of attraction and repulsion that he (or she) sets into motion by his attitude, whether it is faith-filled or adamant. (People respond to what we say and do. We are responsible for those words and actions, to be accountable is having self-control.)

Peace must have its beginning place, and it will never be ion the midst of fiery anxiety where people are only willing to give what is demanded or whose continual search for wrong seems more important than finding right.

Peace will begin where it is believed possible. It will begin with peaceful persons who believe in good.”

I won’t get into politics. But how people carry themselves matters, what they say or do matters, how they treat others matters! Stacking up all the pros and cons with no bottom line, these will get too high one day and then fall over, to be build new. What we accept will hang around. We will live with what we accept. What pulls people apart pulls the world apart too!

Best wishes! Pejj