Mrs. Grace Ann, who lives in a small North American city, said that for years she used to watch the neighbourhood boys play soldier and bandit. Play war, like many boys usually do nowadays.
Retrieved from www.momento.com.br - text "Peace begins in our intimacy.".
She had the opportunity to see this generation grow up and go to war. The voices and cries of command that were once the game became a reality for them. Phrases like "you're hurt! Surrender!" were now for real.
But one day when some boys invaded her garden, chasing others with their plastic guns, Mrs. Grace Ann, who was already 68 years old, called them.
And when all the boys gathered around her, she told them about the war, the armaments, and the madness of shedding human blood.
She exalted peace and its great benefits. She convinced them finally to abandon toy weapons and play with the sports balls that she had bought for them.
The next day they made a proclamation, signed by Mrs. Ann and all the boys she knew. The document read: "Peace begins in our street. The world we live in would be better off without guns and with more justice and love."
And the little pact was concluded when they put fire on fake weapons and fake ammunition.
The group of former soldiers and bandits contemplated with satisfaction whilst the venerable lady exclaimed again: "Peace begins in our street."
To paraphrase Mrs. Grace Ann, we would say that peace begins in our intimacy. It’s only after it invades our home and then goes to the streets, spreading through the city it will win the world.
Mrs. Grace Ann herself was one great example. If she had not felt in her soul the need for peace, disarmament would not have been proposed to the boys.
The future of humanity would change its course, if all adults took a wise decision such as that of Mrs. Grace Ann.
But for this, one must understand that to shed human blood is madness and we need to understand the great advantages of living in peace.
And this peace is not merely the absence of war, but peace in its broadest sense.
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.