Our world is intended to reflect God's vision of Shalom, the beloved community, the peaceable realm, in which joy and laughter, love and harmony guide the affairs of persons and nations.
03692 – God’s Vision of Shalom
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03545 – Melding Together into a Single Harmony
Life is against all dualisms; life is one. ...Always, against all that fragments and shatters, and against all things that separate and divide within and without, life labors to meld together into a single harmony.
02717 – Shalom
The Hebrew term for peace is shalom, which is related to the word shleimut, meaning full or whole. Shalom requires radical inclusion — we can’t be whole unless everybody is included — and harmony — it can’t be peaceful unless all the diverse peoples commit to getting...
02304 – Happiness is…
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.
02020 – Live in Harmony!
From the Native Americans' marginalized position, they have a unique "bias from the bottom" that we would do well to pay attention to. We could learn from them, among other things, that land cannot be owned and Spirit cannot be divided. The Earth and all its...
01746 – Mission-Driven Communities
In a mission-driven community, harmony emerges when diverse people synchronize voice, vision, and energy around a common goal. Trivial differences diminish and the common mission replaces personal agenda.
01446 – Musical Training: A Potent Instrument
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
01127 – Where is Beauty?
Composers know how to use harmony and melody like a net to catch beauty's colors and radiance. And when we like what we hear, we open our pores to take in more--just as we close them against what seems ugly or offensive. Isn't that why we remember so vividly the hours...
01022 – True Happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
00911 – Music, Love, and Harmony
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.