BE PEACE
written by Judy McAllister
“Be the change you want to see happen.”
A modern statement of an often-articulated sentiment.
During my first year of living and working in the Findhorn Foundation (way back in the days of dinosaurs) there was a piece that was often recited – usually as part of a meditation. The two stanzas that stayed with me in the 48 years since are:
See Light
Send Light
Be Light
See Love,
Send Love
Be Love
To those I would add:
See Peace
Send Peace
Be Peace
It is that final line that holds the essence of the invitation now being extended to you. Of late I have had cause to remember the Silent Minute instigated by Wellesley Tudor Pole in 1940 as London was experiencing sustained bombing. The call was simple. Every night at 9pm - as Big Ben sounded its chimes - the populace of the UK was invited to join in a minute of silence. Eventually the BBC broadcast those chimes, so the call went far beyond London. At the end of the war German soldiers spoke of some secret weapon that the British used that they could never quite identify, they simply knew it had something to do with Big Ben.
The Silent Minute, as it was/is known, continues to this day. Over the intervening years a minute of silence has been used in many ways by various organisations. Most often as a potent act of remembrance of events or individuals that have had significant impact, sometimes as an expression of solidarity.
As I view our world today I cannot help but wonder if the time has come to harness the power of collective intention, thought and invocation for a common global purpose - PEACE.
I invite you to join many of us in the community here, in holding a minute of silence at 12 noon every day. The only task for one whole minute is to BE PEACE. Not to pray for it. Not to wish for it. Not to send it somewhere it may be needed. Simply BE PEACE.
Exercises to find peace, to experience it, exist in most, if not all, traditions and pathways. One minute is usually not sufficient to do the practice! However, we have all had moments of it in our lives. The moment may have come while watching a sunset, sitting under or in a tree, contemplating a mountain, walking in a forest, that quiet moment after the kids have gone to sleep, being utterly captivated by a piece of music or a sculpture. Using memory and imagination we can take ourselves back into that moment and bring it alive again. When we do that - all the sensations and good vibes that moment held come into the now. For a minute we can hold it, expand it, radiate it, ground it, be it. We can BE PEACE - wherever we are, whatever we are in the midst of.
If we do this, each in our own time zone at noon, we create a wave traveling around our planet - eventually passing over, through, in and under every square cm - or inch if you prefer - of our world. With each passing day we’d strengthen the wave and grow the presence of PEACE. It will have its effect.
Each of us can do this, commitment, a minute and a memory is all that is needed. Along with a willingness to perhaps look a bit silly if noon finds us in the aisle of the local supermarket!
It’s all too easy to think we are too small to make a difference - too far away from where the conflicts are raging - to have an impact. Yet each one of us can generate energies to balance the rage, the violence, the destruction of families, communities, lives.
If, during your minute of silence it feels comfortable to do so - extend an invitation to the invisible, subtle worlds to co-create with us and lend their aid to the endeavour of expanding the presence of PEACE on our planet. This world is their world too!
Thanks for responding to this call. Please set a reminder for noon and take a minute to be one of the resource creators for PEACE in our times. If you would like to participate you are welcome to use this link to download the sounding of a meditation bowl. In sharing a common notification we add another element to our unified field.
In love, with hope
Judy
PS – Feel free to share this invitation with your circles of connection. I have every faith that with each person’s energy added into the wave, we grow the presence of Peace exponentially. Thank you for being part of this with us.
Be Peace | Daily at Noon
Join us for a minute of silence, in which we simply ‘Be Peace’ at noon each day. When we do this, each in our own time zones, we create a wave of peace traveling around our planet.
Download this audio clip to set as a daily reminder on your device. You’ll hear the resonant sound of one of the community’s beautiful singing bowls.
You won’t need to switch it off immediately. It will sound: gong - 1 minute silence - gong
