There are two things of which I am certain. That I love my wife Fran. That I cannot particpate in war.\u00a0I experience them as complementary.\u00a0 The tangible love that I feel for my wife enhances\u00a0the more conceptual abhorrence of war.\u00a0 Love for my wife helps me directly comprehend that war, in destroying such life and love, is totally unjust. I describe my love as unconditional love. I find this to be an amazing and life-changing conviction. It does not mean that\u00a0I never get angry.\u00a0 Fran and I are blessed to be amazingly well matched, but we are not perfect.\u00a0 But in this instance I believe that perfect love, in the sense of being forgiving, understanding, and having total confidence in one’s love, is achievable. Such love blesses both the giver and the receiver. It is a feeling that is so rare and special, that for me it is experienced as a gift from God. This experience becomes part of the tangible evidence for the love that God has for all human kind, and\u00a0has the effect that\u00a0I become a channel for expressing this love to the world through my\u00a0resistance to\u00a0war.\u00a0 War destroys love; war is a denial of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are two things of which I am certain. That I love my wife Fran. That I cannot particpate in war.\u00a0I experience them as complementary.\u00a0 The tangible love that I feel for my wife enhances\u00a0the more conceptual abhorrence of war.\u00a0 Love for my wife helps me directly comprehend that war, in destroying such life and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-peace","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}