Author: Michael Tino

“Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.” -Oscar Arias Sánchez

How have you experienced people attempting to separate justice and peace?

“Kindness is sometimes uncomfortable, because it requires us to not stay comfortable…. Kindness doesn’t sit still.” -Kimberley Debus, from a UUWorld Article entitled Kindness over Niceness

When have you made yourself uncomfortable in service to a larger good?

In her sermon to CLF this week, Aisha Hauser challenged us to understand the difference between niceness, which smooths over conflict to create a surface-level peace, and kindness, which cares, acts, and often disrupts the status quo.

How do you understand the difference between “nice” and “kind?”

Part of the sacred duty of humans seeking the liberation of all of our siblings is to remember, especially to remember those whose lives were ended because of violence in our world. We remember them in order to rededicate ourselves to a world that is different.

Whose memory do you bear sacred witness to today? How does that witness help you change our world?

Sometimes, we can achieve a balance or a calmness that we can identify as “inner peace.” It is fleeting, always, but worth remembering.

When have you felt a moment of inner peace?