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Peace and Compassionate Living posted on June 5, 2009
As people of faith, were your wheels turning to think of peace with hope after listening to world leaders on the news trying to talk something other than war to the people of the world? Could we use world events to speak to hope and compassion to our children? CGR will support you with music that can help!
New Music
New music this week; Put Your Arms Around the World, is the title song from Global Praise, a CD produced by produced by the United Methodist Church and the General Board of Global Ministry. What we like about this project is the intentional effort to speak faith, peace and love to children through songs from many lands in native languages. If you hear something in German, Swedish, Swahili, Mandarin, Spanish or any language you are not familiar with, listen with your heart and remind the children that God’s world is full of children all over the planet who are children of God our Creator. Just like they are!
And, listen for Laura Nyro’s, Save the Children (in my mind I can’t study war, no more).
New podcast
Another tool we offer is the Faith Parenting podcast. Listen this week for the Rev. Natalie Scholl who shares some ideas for compassion and conversation in the faith community that might give you some perspective on reaching that chat with the children. Rev. Scholl says it helps to ‘connect our blessings’ to the God who loved us first. We pray that such compassion and connection leads to peace between all living things. 
Peace through compassionate living? A life long journey? What are some ways you can offer to help others understand?
with thanks and blessings for the common good,
Pastor Robin
