The Living Peace

We can only be reminded of what we're leaving behind
to know what future we want for our world...



Planted in our hearts
that Man may long persevere
as nations - in time.

Peace is like a seed
of good thoughts, of words, and deeds -
loved and remembered.

'Tis many small things
nurtured, sheltered, and gathered -
and embraced as one.

We know it.
It knows us.
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Peace is not something we must fight for, 

peace is something we must allow.

Peace is not something unfamiliar to our nations 

nor is peace something our nations must force upon our world; 

it is both familiar as well as natural 

to our order and purpose.

What we must 

- as nations and as individuals -

constantly strive for is the truth of these things

to make full our remembrances

and make safe our generations in time.

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Old Soldier of Country

Old Soldier of Country,

standing with the armies of Peace -

through thy living remembrance

thou shalt instruct thy generations

and the nations shall be blessed with peace.

O generations,

why have thou forsaken me?

Forgotten, those days...

Have thou no mem'ry?

Am I dead to thy own hope -

where art thou, my nation?

Old glories fading,

my sacrifice for thee stands -

now, forevermore!

I am thine,

thou art mine.

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Beloved of God,

remember thee thy veterans,

observing always their faithful legacy -

and do so gently,

and do so with love.

In such a way,

dearest Starshine,

thou do honor thy shelter of Country,

for what timeless victories thy veterans gave

to each of thee yesterday,

thou have received worthily today.

O my heart -

come alive to thy remembrance!

For if you forget the past,

you deny the future,

and the present shall become

ever and ever

more distant to thee!

- selah -

Time is not distance.

Time is distant - only -

to those with distant hearts.

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Fast Facts:

In the United States, November 11 is Veteran's Day.

In Europe and the Commonwealth Countries, November 11 is Armistice Day.

In the Philippines, we commemorate National Heroes Day every last Monday of August.

- selah -

To every battle, an outcome.

War has no outcome.

It is good for the military to study battles

but know that War must be understood!

For War has no outcome that is favorable to the military.

The Defeat of War

War confers victory to no one,

not even itself!

For War has no place either in heaven - or -

here on our earth, in exile time - as well as -

at the beginning of all things new.

We are always left with two things

where the focus of the will is on War,

the degradation of the human spirit

and the defeat of the truth.

Where there is any virtue in conflict,

- that is exclusively -

the merit of good human beings.

We must always be mindful of this

and confuse not the nobility of Man

with ignoble, base and evil things.

Lest we forget, lest we forget!

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Harbinger

Thy blade is afire

with the brightness of mem'ry -

keeper of my flame.

Harbinger come forth

restore peace to my people

and glory to God!

Come against this Night

shine against darkness and War -

the sword of nations.

Come defend

remembrance.

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He expelled the man, stationing the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life. (Genesis 3: 24)

The Angel of the Nations

All the Holy Angels of the LORD serve God and God alone.

Now, the Angel of the Nations beholds the face of the LORD, constantly giving worship to God.

Therefore, when the angel of the nations faces its own nation, it provides light to the generations of its people who in turn accept it.

Its sword is then turned away from its own nation in its defense.

When the people reject the peace of this unifying light, the face of the angel is turned away.

And the sword of the angel is then turned toward its own nation to fight against the darkness that keep it from its own remembrances.

As nations, we can only really either surrender to the peace of our belongings together or fight against the angel that guards the memory of our people from the darkness of War.

Remember this - nationhood is a spiritual endowment. It is therefore, a truth in the heart. You can not see it - it is not just a face, not just a sound, or anything purely material - it is wrought through a particular kind of grace, of peace and the love of the same (good will).

It is a labor, a mission, a vision and a destiny.

You feel it in your being, you know it in your heart because it is an unseen reality that calls out to you and all of your peers in the nation that you may be gathered into your own true belongings in time.

It is your gift of nationhood that fosters you according to the peace of your own citizenship - one to another - as a human being among human beings and as a nation among a family of nations.

It is not a work of War.

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If you still want to know the name of the Angel of the Philippines, it is this - "Go and be a good citizen".

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