Monday, December 1, 2003

The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
(Isaiah 11.6 NRSV)

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One of my favorite PEANUTS cartoons has Lucy coming to Charlie Brown and saying, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown. Since it's this time of the season, I think we ought to bury past differences and try to be kind." Charlie Brown asks, "Why does it just have to be this time of the season? Why can't it be all year long?" Lucy looks at him and exclaims, "What are you, some kind of fanatic?"

One more PEANUTS bit of wisdom. Lucy has a score to settle with Charlie Brown. She chases him, shouting, "I'll get you, Charlie Brown! I'll get you. I'll knock your block off!"

Charlie Brown, who has been running full speed, stops, turns around and says, "Wait a minute! Hold everything! We can't carry on like this! We have no right to act this way...The world is filled with problems...People hurting other people...People not understanding other people...Now, if we as children can't solve what are relatively minor problems, how can we ever expect to..."

Whereupon, Lucy interrupts Charlie Brown in mid-sentence, hitting him with a left to the jaw, knocking him out. Says Lucy, "I had to hit him QUICK! He was beginning to make sense!"

Are you working for peace? God needs a lot of peacemakers.

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Dear Jesus, thank you for being the peacemaker of my life. Help me to be a peacekeeper. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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