Peace with justice is such an odd and ambiguous phrase for me, I think it sounds better if it is written “peace and justice” – like all other peace keeping missions use to state, although the phrase has an intellectual quality, being of its depth in meaning, it is mystified by a fog of intrigue that will keep the reader or thinker give some ample time to reflect and analyze the significant truths that it conveys. It is not easy for a poet or a writer to mend weaves on this theme, especially if your dealing with the most common concept of peace, therefore, it is an investment for us to dig in this subject as people of God who follows the commandments and set morals.
Just like all the great discoveries of great people like Maxim, Pasteur, Freud and Einstein that shaped the world we know today. We also has the capability of unraveling great discoveries in oneself, that there are other things that weighs more than all the worldly pleasures that should be given importance. The ideas I got from “peace with justice” really lunged through my head in an instant, literal brainstorms drenched my thoughts and I was suddenly talking to myself with an outburst of realizations that hit me hard.
We all know that peace is such a very self-explanatory word, you wouldn’t even have to get the dictionary to define it for it is very common, but when we came to realize that words really has two meanings, we came to the conclusion that defining the words alone are not the enlightenments to our queries, we maybe the best speaker or the best writer who expresses large quantities of thoughts and ideas, but we may never compensate the other needs of human existence, things that Jesus himself thought us on the sermon at the mount, to love our neighbors wholly, to be of peaceful instrument to God’s kingdom.
Let’s accept the fact that self-centeredness and greed are still the wrecking force that lashes down the base of society’s pyramid, and Jesus is unhappy with that. Now is our time to turn the tides of injustices.
During my childhood years my concept of peace is very limited; I thought that peace is a hand symbol in the middle of catholic rites in the middle of a Catholic mass. Sometimes peace comes to me in forms of symbolisms with no integral values at all. I reached the stage of understanding of knowing the definition of peace, the high school student in me thought of the peace associated with the wars in Mindanao, the peace that comes after the bloodshed, the deathly peace of corpses in the hands of their mourning loved-ones, and the peace of hiding evacuees in the comforts of slums.
Peace and justice is a state of calm, quiescence and tranquility that enables one to sleep sound at night, not afraid of things borne of evils cradle, When one can hear the chorus of nature in the wellness of his/her backyard, when you are free of debt from an unruly person, when you cherish the times with your family and friends, when you hold no grudge to a neighbor, when you’re contented with what you have and you know in yourself that you are just in the eyes of God.
Real peace comes from the grace of God; we are the bridge in an unbridgeable point in time where evil has a place, it is in our own two hands that we mold red bricks of hope to the purged ones that does nothing except singing sobs of misery. God encourages us to stop this civilized shame, by promoting peace with equity to the less fortunate. Lets us not waste time in things that provoked Adam and eve’s fall, but let us give time to think of the graces that we received from God and its time pay him back with this holy service, If obstacles obstructs us, then lets us not use force in the inquisition of righteousness sake, do not let the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah rise up again in the sinful sands where they came, for we all know that evil shall not prevail through Jesus. Let us favor the condemnation of prostitution, where evil possesses the lustiest thoughts, of slavery, where innocent souls get deprived of their rights as human beings, of greed, where money rules the hearts by making it numb of sympathy and care, of other injustices, where all is a sore loser in the end, these things defines the other side of peace, the peace without justice.
The Gospel teaches us many things that guide us to a happy living; peace is a perfect example of it. If you are in peace but have not loved, it is hypocrisy and it lives with the perished. A poet’s common theme of peace is superficial and artless if he himself has not loved and has no peace. So therefore it is a must to first drop all of our fermented malt and change our evil ways before we go to the peace with justice crusade with our lord Jesus Christ as our general.
We must think of our future, will we let the inequities continue to stain our lives as Christians? We have Jesus beside us, so what are we afraid of? We longed for peace a long time ago during the world wars, but today it is different, instead of bullet and bombs we now face a totally different evil that silences the human race, the time is now for us to make a stand, lets break the quiescence of fear, let us work hand in hand, we are the youth, the morning awaits us with optimism lets not throw it away.
this essay won 3rd place on the UMYFP peace with justice essay writing contest
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