International Peace Day on September 21st: Commit Now For World Peace

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.--William Ewart Gladstone


On September 21,  2001, the United Nations voted unanimously to declare  that this day should be observed as an International Day of Peace.   The Assembly declared that the Day be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honor a cessation of hostilities during the Day.  World Peace Day encourages us to be kind to others, and teach others to be peaceful. 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.--Mother Teresa

Each year on this day, celebrations are held in hundreds of countries, all with the same goal in mind....to stop war and violence. Wouldn't it be nice if this one day succeeded and spread, country by country, day by day, until there is no more war or violence?  Wouldn't it be nice to finally have peace? 

Commit to the Global Truce Here

Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,

Let me once know.

I sought thee in a secret cave,

And ask'd, if Peace were there,

A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:

Go seek elsewhere.

I did; and going did a rainbow note:

Surely, thought I,

This is the lace of Peace's coat:

I will search out the matter.

But while I looked the clouds immediately

Did break and scatter.

Then went I to a garden and did spy

A gallant flower,

The crown-imperial: Sure, said I,

Peace at the root must dwell.

But when I digged, I saw a worm devour

What showed so well.

At length I met a rev'rend good old man;

Whom when for Peace

I did demand, he thus began:

There was a Prince of old

At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase

Of flock and fold.

He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save

His life from foes.

But after death out of his grave

There sprang twelve stalks of wheat;

Which many wond'ring at, got some of those

To plant and set.

It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse

Through all the earth:

For they that taste it do rehearse

That virtue lies therein;

A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth

By flight of sin.

Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,

And grows for you;

Make bread of it: and that repose

And peace, which ev'ry where

With so much earnestness you do pursue,

Is only there.

George Herbert