70:5.6 At first the war chiefs were chosen only for military service, and they would relinquish some of their authority during peacetimes, when their duties were of a more social nature. But gradually they began to encroach upon the peace intervals, tending to continue to rule from one war on through to the next. They often saw to it that one war was not too long in following another. These early war lords were not fond of peace.

Peace Be Among Us
Frozen snow upon the ground.
The morning’s quiet. There’s no sound.
One can contemplate and think.
One can see we’re on the brink!

There’s dissension in our ranks.
There’s good on both sides of these banks.
We need to learn to compromise.
And not wage wars we all despise!

We need cool heads to lead us on.
To win this world, wars must be gone!
Leaders who want war not peace
Must be exposed, and then impeached!

Of course, there’s some who’d trick us all.
What they heed is power’s call.
They want for us to fight until
The art of war has filled their tills!

The power to send us into war
Is what warmongers do strive for.
They arouse the fight within us.
But they are gone when wars are finished.

Leaders who promote our peace.
Help us all control our beast.
Solutions that are good for all
Create within us something tall!

Thank You Father, You’ll help us find
Leaders who, though not Divine,
Can help to lead us into light.
I vote for peace, and not to fight!

191:4.3 …. As you rejoice in your loyalty to the gospel, pray the Father of truth to shed abroad in your hearts a new and greater love for yourbrethren. You are to love all men as I have loved you; you are to serve all men as I have served you. With understanding sympathy and brotherly affection, fellowship all your brethren who are dedicated to the proclamation of the good news, whether they be Jew or gentile, Greek or Roman, Persian or Ethiopian.

Love-ing-Ye
In early morn, we see first light.
We awaken from the night.
Life does not need be a fight.
The light inside shows what is right.

Be enlightened as you live.
The world’s improved by those who give.
Though there’s war and pestilence,
Give God’s love for you a chance.

Look around and you will see
The view from your reality.
Deciding on the route you take,
Is the life that you do make!

That’s a goal that should be set
Early on in life, I bet.
But never, is it e’er too late
To redirect and change your fate.

Be a part of what you see.
Join God‘s love reality.
If enough of us join hands,
The river flows more than demands.

We can do this given time.
Love Springs from a source Divine!
Love can solve war and design
A way for Spirit in our minds.

Thank You Father of us all.
When every one of us hears Your call
Life on earth will change and be
More beautiful and lovingly.

193:4.3 This unfortunate combination of individual peculiarities and mental tendencies conspired to destroy a well-intentioned man who failed to subdue these evils by love, faith, and trust.

Love Grows
The’er ways to help today I know—
For love to spread throughout the globe.
It flows and trickles, helps direct
A path that helps us introspect.

Introspection is the key
To bring warmongers to their knees.
The force of love must flow into
All the bad things that they do.

Once love starts, it starts to grow.
No matter what that’s going to show.
A warmonger must deal with love
As that is how we all evolve.

All warmongers truly love.
To live a life, truth must be solved.
Dilemmas so complex distort
Their egos in their soul’s report!

Egos always try to fit
What they’re doing into gifts.
Then they have no need to shift.
Their egos bloat and tend to lift.

Elevated egos must
Either fly, or they will bust.
The seed of love within them grows
And when it bursts more love then flows.

So thank You Father, yes I know
Love will win as it does grow.
The growth of love can cause us pain,
But as it grows, more love is gained!

146:2.14 13. Jesus taught that the prayer for divine guidance over the pathway of earthly life was next in importance to the petition for a knowledge of the Father’s will. In reality this means a prayer for divine wisdom. Jesus never taught that human knowledge and special skill could be gained by prayer. But he did teach that prayer is a factor in the enlargement of one’s capacity to receive the presence of the divine spirit. When Jesus taught his associates to pray in the spirit and in truth, he explained that he referred to praying sincerely and in accordance with one’s enlightenment, to praying wholeheartedly and intelligently, earnestly and steadfastly.

The Path Ahead
The days ahead show winter’s here.
But rain with storms is what is near.
Snow appears later on this week.
Our winter temps are at their peak

As the temperature does cool down,
The rain turns snow upon the ground.
And winterscapes turn white and gray.
And there’s more time inside today.

Cleaning house or cooking food?
Both things do require a mood.
Decide to do what suits you best.
Contribute what you can – no less!

You can choose the mood you wish
Adapting to the way you’re pushed.
Your inner light helps show the path.
Adjust the now ‘fore it’s gone passed.

The here and now is where you choose.
Choose love and peace within, then groove!
That’s a way that fills your cup.
Love will be more than enough!

Love will grow, just give a bit.
A fire grows when it’s been lit.
Love will show you as God wants.
Decisions help your eloquence.

Thank You Father— the One inside.
Faith in You serves as my guide.
Peace within now I have found.
And that promotes a joyful sound!

112:4.2 In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster’s duplicate transcription of the spiritual values and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster’s version of the deceased human’s survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.

The Way Ahead
The year is young and I slept in.
My wife and I saw it begin.
There was joy throughout the world.
It spread as Your Will was unfurled!

Do we Trust with Living Faith?
Entrust your will, and find your fate.
Open up the eyes that see
And change your course through reality.

You’re going to feel an inner glow
As your will gets in the flow.
Of Eternity’s Time Creator.
Love is always a peacemaker!

To get to peace we go through war.
We must learn why we do abhor
War’s face when it is at our door.
Of loving kindness, we need more!

What a world in which to live
Where some have never learned to give.
Power corrupts us at our core.
Must history repeat like before?

Not if Love will stand against
The evilness that is intense.
Evil tricks will be exposed
By your insight as it grows!

Thank You, Father, the road ahead
Is something we need learn, not dread.
Faith that Goodness will prevail.
Provides Your blaze upon my trail.

101:.2 Faith-insight, or spiritual intuition, is the endowment of the cosmic mind in association with the Thought Adjuster, which is the Father’s gift to man. Spiritual reason, soul intelligence, is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, the Creative Spirit’s gift to man. Spiritual philosophy, the wisdom of spirit realities, is the endowment of the Spirit of Truth, the combined gift of the bestowal Sons to the children of men. And the co-ordination and interassociation of these spirit endowments constitute man a spirit personality in potential destiny.

Inside Lover
Today, my trust and faith in You
Must manifest in what I do!
Every day this fact is true.
I’m learning how to best love You!

To fit within the flow of time
Is a skill that is Divine.
It can be taught to mortal man.
The God inside will lend a hand!

look for what you have inside.
You’ll find God there, and He’s alive.
Once you find Him then have faith.
God’s found you, your soul is safe!

Try to work with Him in ways.
Find His humor – how He plays.
Love will show with open minds.
Courage never needs a sign.

You know if you do love or not.
Love takes everything you got!
Tears sometimes are too involved.
In time we’ll see all sadness solved.

Trials and tribulations solved?
Love is how they’re all resolved!
Loving kindness has a way.
It absorbs our bad displays.

Father, thank You once again.
I will improve the world I’m in!
Seeds all grow where they’ve been planted.
We can choose to be united!