Our August Meeting is a Veggie Potluck

Bring your friends and a vegetarian dish to share to our Party on Tuesday, August 11th. at 6:30 pm. We will enjoy a vegetarian dinner and talk about the connection between our food choices and world peace.
The film Food Inc. is playing at the Novi Town Center Theater. It is a terrific documentary that makes you think about the fact that we vote 3 times a day with our food choices.

A TASTE OF MINDFULNESS

”Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely,of being in your body so completely,of being in your life so completely,that what you knew and what you didn’t know,that what had been and what was yet to come,and the way things are right now,no longer held even the slightest hint of anxiety or discord,a moment of complete presence beyond striving,beyond mere acceptance,beyond the desire to escape or fix anything or plunge ahead,a moment of pure being,no longer in time,a moment of pure seeing,pure feeling,a moment in which life simply is,and that is-ness grabs you by all your senses,all your memories,by your very genes,by your loves,and welcomes you home,that is a taste of mindfulness.”

Jon Kabat - Zinn


Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

New Members of DoPeace

Colleen Mills, Citizens For Peace President, and Vincenza, Vice President Citizens For Peace, have joined DoPeace. The DoPeace has certainly enhanced their organization with these promoters for peace and nonviolence.

To see their smiling faces and learn more about them, click on their names above.

Join us in August for these special events.

August 6 - Hiroshima & Nagasaki Comemoration at the 1st Baptist Church in Birmingham located at 300 Willits. Paul Gunter (Keith's brother) is the keynote speaker. His talk is "Proliferation and Pollution: Costs & Consequences". We are sponsors & will have a table.

August 7 - ONE, the Movie will be shown at Madonna University at 7 pm. Ward & Diane Powers will discuss their journey making this film. It is a fundraiser for the ONE PEACE event September 19th. at Schoolcraft College. Go to the website for more information: www.onepeace.us.

Empathy and Compassion for Others


Thich Nhat Hanh
As soon as you see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering, you will be ready to love and accept him. The idea of "enemy" vanishes and is replaced by the reality of someone who is suffering and needs our love.

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

Martin Luther King Jr
Compassion, empathy and nonviolence help us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.




Peace to You and Yours with Love

Jerry

Martin Luther King Jr

Compassion, empathy and nonviolence help us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

Peace to You and Yours
Jerry

Our July 14th meeting will start at 6:30 pm. The Dr. Wayne Dyer film, "The Shift" (formerly "Ambition to Meaning", will begin at 6:45 pm. "Are you ready to make the shift that changes everything? When will you find the joy, the peace, and the love that you came here to give and to receive?" Come view the film and be inspired. Bring your friends!

What is Peace

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work, rather it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.


Author Unknown

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

Thanks Colleen for bringing this movie to me , to us

http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

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Jerry

This Moment


This moment is it. You will never have it again. So don’t miss it. Don’t let an opportunity like this go by

Sufi poet Kabir


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Jerry

The latest edition of the MI Department of Peace Political Action Guide is available now. They will be available for purchase ($5.00) at our monthly meetings. Thank you to Ann Abdoo for writing the essay "Courageous Peace". She is sending the Guide to our president!

Join us at our monthly meeting to hear Amy Lange, Fox News investigative reporter, as she talks about homelessness in Detroit. Amy has won the Edward R. Murrow award for her work on homeless veterans. The meeting begins at 7 pm at Unity of Livonia (Five Mile between Middlebelt & Inkster).

LOVE

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Just think what a love like that can do. It lights up the whole world.

The poet Hafiz

Peace to You an Yours with Love
Jerry

The Citizens for Peace had the Peace Awards Ceremony at our April meeting. Our guest speaker, Linda Chomin, wrote a column describing the evening. We are very grateful for Linda Chomin's support of our activities, and her positive columns in the Observer. We will not be the only community members who will miss her informative and hopeful writing.
If you would like to read Linda's column click Here

Forgiveness

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson


Peace to You and Yours with Love
jerry

“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.”
“In my beginning is my end.”

T. S. Elliot


Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

CITIZENS FOR PEACE ESSAY CONTEST RESULTS

The "Nonviolence as a Pathway to Peace" Essay Contest was initiated to promote the
Season for Nonviolence, Jan. 30-Apr. 4 as an ongoing memorial to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi and their philosophy of nonviolence.

Because of your participation in this contest you and your family/friends are invited to attend the Awards Reception for the contest winners on

Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2009, 7-9:00 PM

Unity of Livonia

28660 Five Mile Road

Livonia, MI 48154 (n. side of Five, bet. Inkster and Middlebelt Rds.)

734-421-8782

This reception is open to the public as well with possible attendance of the Livonia Mayor, Jack Kirksey and State Senator, Glenn Anderson. The guest speaker is Linda Chomin, Health and Community Life Reporter for the Observer & Eccentric Newspaper.

The contest awards will go to:

$250.00 - Molly Fessler, Plymouth High School, Plymouth

$100.00 - Raja Al-Meraisi, Universal Academy, Detroit

$ 50.00 - Arthur Burse, Jr., Universal Preparatory High School, Detroit

$250.00 - Lauren Schwarz, Madonna University, Livonia

$100.00 - Annie W. Robbins, Washtenaw Community College, Ypsilanti

$ 50.00 - Kevin Edward Szawala, Wayne State University, Northville

CONTRATULATONS!!!

Rosemary Doyle, Education Director

Citizens for Peace Education Fund

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace to you and yours
Jerry

SALVATION LIES IN RADICAL FORGIVENESS


Our salvation lies in radical forgiveness, which is the commitment to the perception of each others innocence. We are all innocent, regardless of what we are displaying at the moment. The fact that someone is not displaying their innocence does not mean that it is not there. By affirming their innocence even when they are not showing it, you literally bring it forth. Or at the very least, even if they are not showing it, you can no longer be at the affect of their lovelessness, because you have decided to perceive something else.

Marianne Williamson from A Course In Miracles

Peace to You and Yours With Love
Jerry