First and Last Response

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”- Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Peace starts in our own heart.
Go back to the root.
Nurture, feed, till the soil.
Then go out into the world.
Listen, ask, help, love.
In kindness, generosity, belonging, inviting, including, we change the world.
Our first and last response, always love.
Sow love today.

“I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.”― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches