Peace
“The Gift of Inner Peace”
Presented by Nathan E. Lewis
at the annual, Faith PCA, WIC Christmas Brunch
at the Tacoma Club, December 11, 2004
Hi, I’m Nathan Lewis, a recovering worrywart, peace monger, and eager rabble-rouser. I have been asked to present to you today some insight on “The Gift of Inner Peace.?? I suspect that someone here discovered my particular sins and frailties in this area of my life and assigned to me this topic, as a middle-school teacher would do for one of her troubled students. In other words, I am speaking to the topic today, not because I am an expert by knowledge or experience, but rather for my own maturation in this particular field.
I am only a small part of the peace problem in our present world. We have left the 20th Century in the dust yet her wars, genocide, tyrants, and social unrest still haunt us. We have lived in the supposed postmodern world now for more than 30 years. Like a mantra we hear our generations chant, “’Peace, peace,’ where there is no peace.??
Bono sings,
Heaven on Earth
We need it now
I’m sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there’s gonna be
Peace on Earth….
