Between noon and 12:30 every Monday a group of us meet on the corner of the Lake County Courthouse to "Stand for Peace". We're a mixed bag of people (including Sophie the Peace Dog) that come from diverse backgrounds but with the common belief that conflict can be resolved by peaceful means. So rain or shine we gather with our placards and smiles, waving to the people passing by . We get horn honks and waves back, some show us the peace sign; some times they forget to use both fingers but that's okay.
A few weeks ago when we had finished some of us went to "Soups on" at the Journey Be Church for lunch where we got into a conversation about our "Stand". A statement was made by a non-participant that peace was an unattainable goal because it would take "a new species of human to make it happen.".
I mused on that for awhile and realized that was totally true. Not that peace is unattainable but that it would take a new species; or rather a new creature ."Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are past away; behold, all things are become new.". (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Jesus wants us to example His life as we live ours; to reach out to those around us in love and forgiveness. He wants us to be the ambassadors of peace for His Kingdom. A Kingdom, by the way, that you can not even be aware of unless you are born again; "a new creature" (John 3:3)
