Consider, just for a moment, the choice that creates a brighter, and more beautiful, life-possibility:  an end-goal that shines with the richness of a common (compassionate) brotherhood and sisterhood.  A captivating, radiant image …of a healed family – of a world that shares in the joys of peace and the comforts of caring.  A humanity serving one another regardless of position or stature, wealth or poverty.  A dream.  A hope.  A challenge.  Realistic and reachable…….driven by desire, choice, and action – the fuels that provide forward momentum, and the realization of change.  A better world.  A better vision.  An Orchard of Peace …where possibility has become something Remarkable, Universal, Divine.

The birthing process of the future doesn’t have to be mystical.  The needed skills to break with the past have always existed in us.”²  In pursuing the ‘Heart of God’ we can, and we should, travel hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm, ….reaching out – with compassion and healing – as Jew, Muslim, Christian …..to brothers and sisters that, as yet, cannot see the bonds that we share. “In our banks, our kindergartens, our picket lines and voting booths, as we worship in our graceful sacred buildings and in our quiet forests and on our frenzied streets, through the seasons of our joy and of our sorrows – in all these, we must remember to welcome ourselves, each other;  and all who begin as strangers into the Tent that is open to all.”³ 

We all live in God’s Tent, “the tent of Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah, open on all sides, a tent of welcome to the ‘other’.”⁴  In this dwelling (the ‘Home of God’) there are no strangers;  there are no barriers;  there are no un-welcomed guests.  All are seen as one – equal before God, beloved children within His Cherished Family. 

Our loving God does not see the stripes that we paint on one other.  In His World, our distinct, different lives are all part of a mosaic that shifts and moves and struggles to show itself in the original beauty of God’s creation:  a picture that could live anew... but only if people choose to seek, and create, Peace ... and Unity... and Love.

The seeds of hope reside within the dreams, and desires, of all people that choose to seek God with forgiving, open hearts... compassionate, caring people who reflect kindness, humility, and tzedakah [charity] toward each other, and for one another.