PEACE

Peace

Peace is but a single word, but when it is spread throughout the entire world and embraced, it becomes a resilient force against war.

 

The United Nations countries along with all the world’s religions and their people need to rally together in the year 2022 and demand a nuclear country ceases an unprovoked war.  This war is resulting in the horrific deaths of innocent citizens of all ages and reducing their homes to rubble.  This assault isn’t just on one independent country, we need to wake up and realize it is jeopardizing the entire planet.  What hope for world peace is there for humanity if this continues?

 

Unstable countries now possess the technology and equipment to start a nuclear holocaust that can destroy all life on this planet.  If you by chance were an advanced alien race that had been monitoring our development for millennia, would you stand by and let it happen or would you intervene?  Edgar Mitchell was a NASA astronaut who walked on the moon on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.  Before dying, he told the British newspaper Mirror that they had intervened during the Cold War to prevent a nuclear war.  If true, we’re in need of another other-worldly intervention by either another race or ultimately our Creator.

 

A rogue nation of ruthless leaders that neither values the lives of others or even their own people can now either cause the unification or annellation of humanity.

ELEVEN O TWO

11:02, Chicago Art Institute

The clock of life is wound but once
and no man has the power
to tell just when the hands will stop
at late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.

The world paused for an instant at 11:02 in Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. The image above is from a special exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute. The scared remains of this wrist watch were found in the rubble after the devastating atomic bomb blast that hastened the end of WWII just days later. Hiroshima had been the first nuclear war target just three days earlier. Nagasaki was a secondary target that day as Kokura was the primary. But cloud cover diverted the B29 superfortress bomber “Bockscar” to a fateful divergence with history that morning. An inoperable fuel pump also limited the plane’s range. Because of many earlier air raids, the people below had actually become somewhat complacent about the sirens and many were not taking shelter. The unfathomable energy released by that single weapon killed seventy thousand people below in an instant. And no one understandably knew how to treat those survivors exposed to radiation poisoning.

Malcolm Gladwell notes in his new book on David and Goliath that forty thousand Londoners were killed over a period of eight months during the German Blitz of 1940. We all have a fear of fear, but after so many near misses, human beings actually begin to conquer it. The Blitz actually resulted in the exact opposite effect of instilling hopeless fear in the British people. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 about this theory of “desirable difficulty” which actually strengthens us. Unfortunately for the people of Nagasaki, this new weapon raised the bar of human warfare to the top of the post. It did leave the United States with a surplus of 495,000 Purple Heart medals, as Japan unconditionally surrendered five days later.

These hands of time serve as a mute reminder that humankind can never remain with a feeling of complacency in this nuclear world. Could it be that the ethereal being in the image above was wearing that watch almost seventy years ago and is desperately trying to convey its apocalyptic message even more fervently today? And remind us to always live, love and toil with a will as no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop.