John Morton offered this blessing at the UStream broadcast IIWP Peacemaker Meeting on January 28, 2012:

A Blessing for Peacemakers

Peace is present. Peace is a choice regardless of external circumstances. That’s how it is always working.

My experience is every time we bring our awareness to our breathing, we experience peace. So just be conscious with breathing in and breathing out, however that works for you. Sometimes it’s like taking in a nice deep breath and letting that out. If you can let go of tension which you don’t need, tension that’s not assisting and supporting you with peace or with your well-being or your happiness, then let that go. Let go of anything that would be present with you right now that would be functioning in againtness. There is no need for that. There is no need for stress. There is no need for you to feel unsafe. Let that go.

Consider that right where you are is protected. You are safe. Every time you receive another breath, that is confirmation you are chosen as a peacemaker. Whoever issues your breath is calling you forward as a peacemaker. That may be in spite of what you have chosen in the world or what you are expressing in the moment. So regardless of what your past is, regardless of what you have created, you are in the process of creating, choose peace. Choose to make every breath a breath that leads you into greater peace.

We ask for greater assistance right now through the consciousness of the light. There is illumination. When we see anything and everything in this light, when it is fully revealed, there are no enemies. There is no againstness. This light is so powerful, it dissolves and transforms it. It changes whatever it needs to change so there is wisdom. There is caring. There is a joy. There’s the appreciation of the silence and the harmony that is always present everywhere and in everything.

This light is radiating this peace, this harmony, this joy. Your well-being is increased. You are alive in this peace, and it causes you to smile. In this light, the value of everyone is revealed. So you see the peace in everyone, past the behavior, past the disturbance, past whatever has been said or done.

This light reveals the peace that is present. As you can see it within you right now, however you picture it, however you know it as a conscious experience, you can see that it is eternal. You can hold the peace. So whatever you do, wherever you go, you bring peace. You are a peacemaker.

You find great patience. You find great strength. You find whatever is needed to move the mountain. So you find your faith. Peace is what shall become, and you will hold until peace is present for all.

This is your choice. It is given to you freely. You see that you are in the dedication, the commitment. Whatever it takes, you make that choice.

You also see that you are like the light that holds into one place. Like one candle, when you are lit up in this peace, there is light radiating everywhere, to everyone, to everything. The choice to be the light is the choice to be in peace, to be in harmony, to be in the strength that endures past any form of againstness. Your presence in peace ceases the aganistness. As you can behold it, you know it can become.

Baruch Bashan

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