We are being told that we must strike back with massive force … We are being told that “justice must be served” — enforced with a rain of missiles and a hailstorm of bullets … We are being told that it is our “moral duty” to destroy the enemy of terrorism … We are being told that Love is futile and that Peace has failed.

NOT SO!

For to strike back with massive force and seek vengeance upon our perpetrators and serve them with their “appropriate punishments” is to assure the victory of the very forces that have harmed us so deeply. They want us to be angry … They want us to weep & wail and call for death & destruction … They want us to hate them … They want another war.

Well, not on my watch — and certainly not with my permission.

There are only a small assortment of weapons that work against violence and terror and evil … They are the shields of Happiness, they are the swords of Forgiveness, and they are the daggers of LOVE.

Amen … Let us remember these Weapons today …
And let us use them accordingly.

Peace to ALL — today & evermore … S

“On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son … but you will not have my hatred. I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know … If this God for which you kill indiscriminately made us in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound in his heart.

 

So no, I don’t give you the gift of hating you. You are asking for it but responding to hatred with anger would be giving in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.

You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security. I will not … You have lost.

Of course I’m devastated with grief, but it will be short-lived … We are two, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies of the world.” ~ Antoine Leiris

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