Dear Friends,
By the United Nations Declaration this is the:
World Interfaith Harmony Week
and we begin the Season for Non Violence
The Denver Area Task Force created
 “64 Ways in 64 Days: Daily Commitments to Live By.”
I will be featuring many of these daily affirmations during this beautiful season created by AGNT, Arun and Sunanda Gandhi. For more information please go to agnt.org.
Let’s begin with:
Today, I reflect on what peace means to me.
Today, I look at opportunities to be a peacemaker.
Today, I look beyond stereotypes and prejudices.
Today, I will enlarge my capacity to embrace differences and appreciate the value of every human being.
Our world, local and global need us as  peacemakers. The more we seek to reconcile with members of our family, friends and co-workers the energy of quiet contentment resonates out as a ripple affect. Each one of us must do our part at this time in earth history.  Find the commonalities people  can agree on and help them work towards a common goal.
As we seek peace with others, we must also seek peace within ourselves. Peace happens when we are aware of our own stereotypes and prejudices. When a biased thought comes up, look at it, rephrase it and heal it. We are not here to judge, only to love.
We are all made DIFFERENTLY.   I believe we have been created in His Spiritual Image and Likeness, which means created as love, joy, peace, harmony, happiness, abundance, Intelligence and more.  I do not believe it means our physical bodies or personalities.  Without these differences, how can we learn to live with, cooperate and collaborate with people? SAMENESS is boring.  It will not keep us mentally and spiritually alive. Every person is valued by God.  It is within our own Divine nature to value one another regardless how different we may seem.
One of our friends, Lea Segel, gave us this Reading for the Sabbath from the Chautauqua Hebrew Congregation N.Y.
“Where Can Holiness Be Found?
There is holiness when we strive to be true to the best we know.
There is holiness when we are kind to someone who cannot possibly be of service to us.
There is holiness when we promote family harmony.
There is holiness when we forget what divides us and remember what unites us.
There is holiness when we are willing to be laughed at for what we
believe in.
There is holiness when we love-truly and honestly and unselfishly.
There is holiness when we remember the lonely and bring cheer into a dark corner.
There is holiness when we share our bread, our ideas, our enthusiasms.
There is holiness when we gather to pray to him who gave us the power to pray.
Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Host. All of life can be filled with this glory

Peace and Harmony