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The President's Corner

MESSAGE FROM:
                              GRACE MORRIS
                               Fil-Am PRESIDENT

Dear Friends,

I would like to share my thoughts on Response-Ability in time for
the New Year!!!

What I meant is our ability to respond to the calling or the action of
whatever is presented to us. This message I would like to focus
on our “response-ability” toward peace.

I believe that this is very timely in this human interface that we’re
faced with, and the kind of divisive world we have right now.

Let me share some great and wonderful passages about
Peace---within us, our inner circles, our community, and the world
in general.

First, let’s focus on ourselves:

"Do the thing you believe in. Do the best you
can in the place where you are and be kind. --Scott Nearing--
And then, let’s reflect on ourselves:

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and
head and hands, and then work outward from there”.
  --Robert M. Pirsig--

And then, above all, let’s help create peace from ourselves
outward onto the greater world...

“We all know, perhaps, there really is still a chance for peace —
and that chance will definitely increase if we each do our piece. It
is ultimately up to us, each one of us, all of us, individually and
together, to create the kind of world in which we want to live —
starting right here, right now. Within the context of our immediate
lives, within the concentric circles of our ordinary interactions-our
family, friends, and community, and others.

One by one and all together we must learn and practice the ways
of peace, cooperation, compassion, forgiveness and
understanding. We must put our spirit into action and, be the peace
we seek — in our hearts, in our homes, in our relationships and in
our communities. In the words of Gandhi, "You must be the
change you wish to see in the world." Surely, this is the humble
but firm foundation for Peace on Earth. We are the world, after all”

Lastly, I’d like to leave with you the words of great Confucius
If there is character in the individual,
There will be harmony in the home;
If there is harmony in the home,
There will be honor among the people,
If there is honor among the people,
There will be justice in the community;
If there is justice in the community,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
Then there will be peace in the world!

                                         Sincerely,

                                 Grace Morris
                                 Fil-Am President