DMZ Today

With spring comes new life and new hope. Today at our monthly DMZ lunch we made plans to work on our community garden in the central city. This year we will try to involve more of the neighborhood persons around the garden in the growing and sharing of the food from the garden.

At a Catholics for Peace and Justice peace vigil tonight my hope was renewed that someday peace groups will come together and work together for peace; that the diversity of peace and justice groups will lead not to more competition for time and attention, not even to complementing each other; but to uniting to take on one issue at a time and thus build a lasting peace. I pray for unity in diversity.

I look forward to warm days to work outside in the garden here and at DMZ.

Soon the rain garden will hopefully explode with new flowers and new life.

And who knows maybe even the financial markets will stop taking down persons with their greed and start helping people build a healthy way of life.

My son and I were talking today about the old saying: “You become what you think.” This saying might seem too simple or too wishful but holds a bit of wisdom. Positive thinking cannot make things happen but can make one ready to see, hear and respond to good things. Negative thinking can certainly lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. If a pitcher thinks too much that he is going to walk a batter he probably will.

So in these days where it seems that there is more bad news than before, let us not be distracted by it, but look forward to the coming attractions.

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