Author: Michael Tino

“When I breathe in, I’ll breathe in peace. When I breathe out, I’ll breathe out love.” -Sarah Dan Jones, from her hymn “Meditation on Breathing”

Spend some time breathing intentions into the world today, or open the hymn video and listen or sing.

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn (1971)

Call attention to the wars in your midst today. We must disturb them together.

Dontê Hilliard led a marvelous worship service at CLF this weekend whose message was this: If you being your full, authentic self “disturbs the peace,” the peace was an illusion all along.

How have you learned to claim and be your full, authentic self?

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -Jane Addams

How can we secure some good for others today?

It is hard to think about what a peaceful relationship means when mutual respect is absent.

How have you established mutual respect in a difficult situation?