If Words Are Powerful....Then This Matters ~ Voices From Iowa (Day 1)

While I waged war, you waged peace. Last June, beginning with the last 30 days leading up to the launch of BlogBlast For Peace #4, I presented each of the thirty conflicts around the world pictorially and statistically in hellish detail here at Mimi Writes ~ Thirty Days Thirty Reasons To Fly A Peace Globe. It was bloody. It was horrifying. It was the worst of humanity ever to inhabit my blog page.
And it was life changing.

For me.

At times I felt no one was listening at all. Some of you admitted to ignoring my blog during this time because you couldn't stand to read the depressing facts one more day. Trust me, I understood. For awhile I thought I'd lost my readers.
That is, until BlogBlast For Peace ~ A Revolution of Words rolled in....not with tanks and weapons, but armored with a determined and quiet invasion. Little did I know that while the suffering of war waged here in my little world, bloggers were penning the most impressive array of peace posts I'd ever read. When I learned this from my blogger friend Margo Moon last June, I was astounded. She wrote, "
"Had to let you know today, I received my third peace post preview from a fellow blogger. Just wanted you to be aware that bloggers take their peace posts so seriously, that drafts get passed back and forth for inspection, then they get tweaked, and sent around again. This is such an organic movement."

.....followed by a statement from Hahn At Home who wrote, "This is a powerful movement that I hope continues and gains strength until the last bullet has flown, the last child has died, and before the last of hope is lost. ~ Lori Hahn ~ Sacramento, California

And I knew that you were here. And listening.
And laying your words on the page.
So I wrote A Changing Queen In An Upside Down World on June 4 and watched our quiet revolution begin. You showed up wearing garlands of daisies, spouting doctoral level dissertations, splattering kindergarten colors on bold blue globes, ranting, ruminating, remembering.....waging peace. It was loud. It was heard.
It was extraordinary.

I won't totally abandon the thirty days of war posts - that would send the wrong message - you'll find them at the bottom of each for the next 30 days in case you'd like to revisit and in my sidebar. This time I've chosen to take those award winning diatribes of peace, whittled and honed down to perfection by bloggers from now 40 countries (and counting), and show you just how revolutionary we have become. I have read all 1100++ posts. Here are but a few snippets of wisdom from the blogosphere. You won't want to miss a day.

Powerful Voices ~ Day One

Peace Spotted Here: Almost Somewhat Positive
Location: Iowa USA Blogger: Mary Date: November 7, 2007

"Wouldn't it be something if our children saw war as a thing of the past instead of a horrible and ever present reality? If they didn't have to see violent and disturbing images on the news? Or didn't have to ask, "Where is my mommy and daddy, don't they love me more than being a soldier?" What would our world be like if children didn't see their parents killed in front of them or have them die in their arms? And if parents didn't have to see their child pick up a gun. What if we lived in a world where governments and persons of power didn't exploit their own people for personal gain?

I cannot stop the bullets and the bombs.
I cannot bring our soldiers home.
I cannot quell the suffering of the millions.
I cannot overthrow a corrupt
government and establish true democracy.
I feel that I cannot be heard.

Until today.

Dona Nobis Pacem."

Mary's words are powerful.
She matters.

30 Days/30 Reasons To Fly A Peace Globe
#1 ~ Sri Lanka
#2 ~ Darfur