...all things work
together for good...
-- Romans 8:28All things tend to peace
for those who are peace makers.
Even this moment's strife---
its pain, its terror---
are only prayers, penetrating
the spaces between strangers
to bind them in a greater union.
But then, it's not for me
to make peace for the world.
It is enough for me
to incarnate that peace
which the world cannot give.-- Mahlon H Smith
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