A Beatles Revival

"All you need is love

Ta, Ta. Ta, Ta, Da

All you need is love, love,

All you need is love."

Recently, I had the opportunity to read an excerpt from the Dalai Lama's letter to the world on September 11, 2001. I bring it before you now:

Dear friends around the world:

Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it- in that part of the world which I touch?

Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that is You.

What can you do TODAY... this very moment?

A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to experience, provide for another. Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience in your own life, and in the world.

Then, see if there is another for whom you may be the source of that.

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe.

If you wish to better understand seeminly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand.

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

Those things are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance....

Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

My religion is very simple.

My religion is kindness.

This excerpt was the second reading during the 5th Sunday in the Season of Creation: World Peace.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

"Where there is hatred, let us sow love: Being Peacemakers in the created order"

A Season of Creation 2008 - brought to you by St. Francis.