Blessed are the Peacemakers

Today at church I was asked to do a reading during the song "Let There Be Peace on Earth."  Here's what I wrote.

 He came into the world as Prince of Peace

And called us to be peacemakers,

Said we would be blessed.

And so,

Out beyond the right-doing and wrong-doing

Of all the types of people we are–

Liberals and conservatives,

Rich and poor,

Strong and weak,

Wise and foolish—

Out beyond all our differences

There is a field.

“I’ll meet you there,” the peacemaker says,*

“And there we will walk and talk

And find a way forward.

There we will do the hard work of making peace.

And once we make that peace between us,

Once we build our bridge,

We will BE the peace we seek,

And we will be called Sons and Daughters of God.”

*This quote is based on thoughts from a poet named Rumi.