To My beloved people, I say this, that the time is now to put aside differences and to celebrate the oneness that exists within your souls, knowing that the essential core of what is good, and beautiful, and holy, exists within each one of you.

The killing that has been so present during this last period of time needs to stop, because you are not just killing another as you take up arms against your brother, you are killing the seed of life that germinates within your very soul that grows only in the presence of love.  Therefore, I say that all war is an illusion in that it cannot lead to true peace, for however necessary it may appear, true peace can only come from a peaceful heart.  It cannot come from a heart that makes war upon others.

If you but knew the price that you have paid for the assaults that unconsciously, and without understanding the consequences, you have made upon others, you would never again lift a weapon against another.  No, not ever, for you would see that the bullet, bomb, or grenade that takes the life of another or that injures that life, does even more injury to your own self, to the self that lives deeply buried in some, yet knows the consequences of action.

There will come a time when it will be recognized that peace can only be achieved by peaceful means, and that war only begets violence, perhaps not right away, but later on.  In this time to come, each heart will seek to find the way to its own inner peace, and each heart will feel deeply troubled by the obstacles it finds in its own path.  Despite the trouble of that time, it will then be known that the source of hatred and war lies with each self that cannot find the inner road to peace.  It does not just lie with the governments or authorities that make the official declarations of war.

Find the place within yourself, then, that is willing to lay down arms, that is willing to be vulnerable and soft, even when others may not be so.  Find the place within that is willing to hold hands with the one who may appear to be your enemy as the outer self defines these things, but who inwardly is but another part of yourself.  Find the place that is willing to put aside differences and to forgive what has been a terrible travesty wrought by human hands and hearts, but that nevertheless needs to be forgiven.  For only forgiveness will wipe the slate of hatred clean.  Only forgiveness will create the foundation for a new way of being on the earth.

Let peace come to the world.  Let it come, and let it remain in every household, within every community, in every society, between every nation, and among all human beings as they relate to each other and to the natural world around them.  Let peace come, and let their be rejoicing in the many different ways that souls have come to express themselves on the earth, and the vibrant life that this can bring.  Only when these differences in culture, values, preferences, goals, habits, and ways of worship can be embraced, can the world know what it is like to live in peace and harmony.  Beloved ones, the time is now.  The flags of all nations stand before you, calling you to your heart and to its opening to the rest of life.

-- Julie Redstone

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