Here's a quick experience that serves me nicely as a metaphor for
peace:
One morning in June, my wife discovered a wasps' nest until the eaves right by the front door of the house. She sounded the alarm and, being the man of the house I quickly ran...to the computer to see how to best deal with the poblem.
While I was doing my research on how to carpet-bomb wasps, I read about how they eat other insects and are not aggressive. Once in a while, a rogue wasp will attack after being provoked, but for the most part, if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone. So I left them alone.
I watched over the summer as they went about their business and protected the nest that was incubating the next generation. At night I would look at all of them huddling on the nest and it was quite scary to be so close to so many wasps, but they just stayed on the nest and didn't see to notice me.
Then one morning I woke up to find the nest was empty: the babies has been born and flown the coop, their parents' work here was done. I pulled the beautiful paper work of art down from the eaves and took it inside to show my four-year-old.
That night I contrasted this story with what might have happened had I chosen to bomb the nest. Suddenly the wrath of all the wasps would have been coming down on me. I would have created instant enemies who had nothing on their minds but Attack, attack, attack. Glad I took another course of action.
I may get comments that none of the wasps never had intent to harm in the first place, where some Iraqis did. All I know is I left things alone. No new enemies were created. And no one got stung.
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