Peace starts with a smile

Peace begins with a smile.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.