Making Peace, Episode 260
At the end of our first 5 years of 'Turning Towards Life' we ask - how do we do the difficult work of reconciliation, of making peace with ourselves and with those with whom we share this one life, without abandoning ourselves or one another?
How do we make peace together in a world where there are rarely easy answers, and where the right path is often shrouded in complexity? And can we commit ourselves to peace-making in the most ordinary ways as an endless path to walk, rather than as a 'thing' to be obtained?
This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Here's our source for this week:
Making Peace
Peace making doesn’t mean passivity
It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice
The act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer
The act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight
but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice.
It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.
From:
‘Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals’ - a book by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove & Enuma Okoro.
Photo Credit: Lizzie Winn (photo from a wall near my house!)