Hello Everybody,   
      
   With all the talk of war these days, expecially in regards   
   to Iran, perhaps it is time to start thinking about another way   
   of doing things.  Rather than sabre-rattling, let us all take a   
   step back and take a good look at ourselves, what we really want   
   - or should want - for both ourselves and for others.   
      
   I will let St. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania lead the way -   
      
                    Vow of Nonviolence   
      
   Before God the Creator and the Sanctifying Spirit, I vow to carry   
   out in my life the love and example of Jesus...   
      
   - by striving for peace within myself and seeking to be a peacemaker   
   in my daily life;   
      
   - by accepting suffering in the struggle for justice rather than   
   inflicting it;   
      
   - by refusing to retaliate in the face of provocation and violence;   
      
   - by preserving in nonviolence of tongue and heart;   
      
   - by living conscientiously and simply so that I do no harm to creation   
   or deprive others of the means to live;   
      
   - by actively resisting evil and working nonviolently to abolosh war   
   and the causes of war from my own heart and from the face of the earth.   
      
   God, I trust your sustaining love and believe that just as you gave   
   me the grace and desire to offer this, so you will also bestow abundant   
   grace to fulfill it.   
      
   Pax Christi USA   
   http://www.paxchristiusa.org/   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.06.00.00-gb   
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