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Eye on the World: Breakthrough moments of peace are possible
Today’s Christian Science Monitor features an article about how the two rival candidates for the Presidency of Afghanistan were brought together and have agreed to a peaceful resolution to their tense disagreements over the results of the Afghan election.
If it can happen there, let’s open thought to the possibility that peace can also happen in the conflict in Ukraine, in dealing with Boko Haram in Nigeria, and in the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
The author of “Peace is possible” writes of peace as the normal condition of existence rather than something that is outside of us that needs to be captured. She writes: “Often the greatest obstacle to a breakthrough is not so much that the means to the end are not available, but that we fail to make use of those means. We doubt the feasibility of our hopes. A sentence in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy describes a step we need to take. Mrs. Eddy writes, "We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them with the life which is spiritual, not material" (p. 428).
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