GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
The mantra sung and chanted and begged for in 1969.
1969.
War rages and protests break out all over.
Charles Manson cult members murder 5 people.
Hurricane kills 248 people.
Chappaquiddick (look it up).
Police raid a gay club in New York City. The Stonewall Riot ensues.
1969.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
What the messenger asked of a young, brown-skinned, oppressed, poor girl named Mary.
4 BCish.
Herod the Great kills his own family to hold onto his reign of brutality.
Taxation of the poor is almost 50-60%.
Women are viewed as property, to be used and discarded on a whim.
Revolts and uprisings are commonplace.
Politics and religion intertwine and hatred for the “other” rules.
4 BCish.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
What our collective, modern-day hearts continue to yearn and plead for.
2021
COVID continues to threaten our way of life. Will it ever be over?
Politics and religion intertwine and hatred for the “other” destroys communities, families, and even our hope.
Sex-trafficking is at an all-time high. 40,300,000 current victims.
Another school shooting. #excruciatinglyawful
Continuing racial tension that seems insurmountable.
2021.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
PEACE.
The idea that ALL IS WELL.
inside and outside
individually and collectively
mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally
for EVERYONE.
Not just for some.
Not just for the rich.
Not just for the healthy.
Not just for the insiders.
Not just for the free.
BUT for everyone.
The rich and the poor.
The healthy and the sick.
The loved and the lonely.
The insiders and the marginalized.
The free and the prisoner.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
PEACE.
HOW? HOW? HOW?