1. Volume 1, Number 2

What if ...

• Families shared their mealtime blessing:

  Bless us, our family, and these, thy gifts of the earth, which we are about to share, through the grace and hard work of many, in peace.

• Schools made a daily pledge:

  I pledge allegiance to my Inner Light, and to that still small voice for which it stands: one world, many paths, with liberty and justice for all.

• Our money said:

  In each other we trust.

• Our courts became mediation centers, where clerks would remind the conflicting parties, the mediators, and the clearness committee members:

  We are about to share our truth, our whole truth, so help each other.

• At bedtime we said:

  Oh peace, who art in me, love be thy name. Thy grace will come, thy work is done, in sleep, as it is in waking.

Eileen Coan
July 1, 1997

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