World Peace and Healing Day Messages 1996
World Peace and Healing Day Messages
7:00am December 31st, 1996
We gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Charlotte Florida along with millions
around the world to spend an hour thinking, speaking, praying, meditating, and visualizing the
movement of our world toward greater wholeness and peace.
The inspiration for this event comes from two visionaries named John Randolph Price and his wife
Jan who originally proposed this global event. They realized in 1983 that the focus of attention
throughout the world needed to move from materiality to spirituality by forming a Planetary Commission.
Price describes the formation of the Commission this way:
The Commission is not like any other kind of movement. We are not protesting or resisting anything.
We're simply consenting to letting God be God - and we are volunteering to co-create with God
in the implementation of the Divine Plan - for each one of us, and for all humanity.
To serve as a Light Bearer on the Commission requires no dues.
There is no organizational structure. There will be no meetings, however, at Noon Greenwich time
on December 31st of each year (beginning in 1986 and) - continuing until the last one comes into the
Light - men women and children all over the world will gather in a Global Mind-Link to release
Love, Light and Spiritual Energy into the Race mind.
This year Cynthia Stiehl again sang some songs for peace and Sherry Noland-Gosset representing the Groves Foundation reflected on world peace and inner peace and then led a guided meditation with recorded meditational music. After our
time for meditation and prayer, each person was invited to share a message of peace with the world. What follows is a listing of those messages with the hope that these peaceful thoughts will bring healing to the world. Enjoy them so you too may find both
peace and healing within and become part of the cause of world peace.
Why are simple things so hard to achieve? Help me, Lord to love one another,
as you have loved me, and then there will be peace, because if I love, then I
can't hurt anyone, or anything.
May the peace which we have all felt in this short hour of prayer and
meditation be passed on to all the world leaders and then felt by their people
to bring about world peace. Perhaps in future years, December 31st
can be a world way of thanksgiving for world peace.
Today, I forgive all who have ever hurt me so that we may live in peace.
I feel peace when I am outside with my horse. When I am grooming him or riding
him or feeding him. When he is running it feels as if we are one being. When
I ride bareback and he runs I feel as if we will never be separated. When I am
with my horse I feel truly peaceful.
Peace--Always there within the storm thunder, lightning, gusts cannot touch
that still place within my spirit though in my humanness I forget, Faith.
Connection to my divine source. Great Mystery I honor you.
[I find inner peace] Playing with my sister.
Be your own peace, this will then reflect in all you do. World peace is worth
working toward. Put forth the effort for peace, with the reverence you have
for the most important part of your life.
Peace on earth, and in your heart.
When each man and each woman finds inner peace there will be peace on earth.
Love your sister, Anne Hart
Peace is simple, not easy. It is who we are. We just need to remember that
idea and each day I need to choose peace as I honor my being and our joint
consciousness.
Right now, let us turn our backs on laying blame, and look only forward as to
how we can help all live in peace.
Teach us to know that hate is promoted by fear--and should be discarded. Peace
is promoted by innocence and faith the deepest bond of love of self given to
humanity.
Join Us! Join Us!
You are not alone
Just as a baby is soothed by
its mother's hand
So too we are soothed by each other.
We are not alone
and peace surrounds us.
Peace, world
Peace, for our children
They look up into our eyes searching
for direction.
May we share our strength and peace with them.
[I pray] that all weapons will be buried and that peace will be realized--and
that inner peace will reign in the hearts of all.
A search for inner peace takes courage of inner strength which can overcome
what is beyond.
[Pray for] peace in families, communities, governments.
The sun has infinite power for growth, healing and light.
We combine growth,
healing and light to make inner peace.
Then, we release the power and send
it back to the universe, completing the circle, including all within it.
I am you and you are me, united with one another in understanding, love,
tolerance and peace.
At the sunset of my life,
intense trauma, death, physical pain, mental pain
over came my whole being.
In search of consolation, comfort
I found great
Peace through an outstretched hand
That of a new found friend whose name is
Joan Divine,
who [to my surprise] is here physically present with me at this
Service.
Thank you Joan, God bless you, Peace be with you always.
Inner peace and outer peace are one.
My prayer is for all people to find
what they seek, what they desire, what they need,
by looking within to find
the beauty which glows in our hearts
and then find that same beauty glowing
in the world
and recognize the eternal truth of what is beyond us. Rev.
Sam Trumbore
A New Year's Peace Prayer
Messages from 1995
Other Peace Sites of Interest
Make January 1, 2000 a Day of Peace
Celebrate WORLD PEACE 2000!
United Planetary Federation Peace Links (extensive)
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