Peace can be identified in many ways: inner peace of mind; familial peace and harmony in the home; political peace within and between nations: these are three general concepts of peace.
As mothers, we can sow peace by teaching our families to love and to forgive.
What is love
Love is kindness in action. Love is forgiving wrongs. Love is accepting differences. Love is encouraging unity even in diversity. Love is respecting others and oneself. Love is vital within family and community.
Mother’s opportunity to teach
Mothers sow love in the home by finding peaceful solutions. Mothers sow love through self acceptance and teaching others to forgive themselves and others. Mothers sow love by teaching others to apologise and take responsibility for mistakes. Mothers sow love by loving unconditionally and modelling it for their children.
Mothers share forgiveness
Siblings need to learn to share and to forgive. Mothers can teach this by providing opportunities to share on the one hand, and by respecting children’s needs to have their own property on the other. Mothers encouraging their children to apologise — and to forgive –helps those children to grow in responsibility and kindness.
Mothers role modelling love and forgiveness
Above all, mothers loving and forgiving wrongs models a way of peace and mutual respect, responsibility and cooperation, that will stand our children in good stead in life.
Learning love will help society to be remodelled toward peace and harmony that seems to be slipping away.
Reshaping Society for the better
Love in this increasingly hostile and divided world is a value and way of life that is desirable… and possible. Let’s show our children how to live in love and so gain a world of peace.