Living peacefully

Discussion topics

• Do you cherish that of God within you, that God’s love and power may grow in you and rule your life?
• Do you try to make your home a place of friendliness, refreshment and peace, where God becomes more real to all who live there and those who visit?
• Are you patient and considerate, even towards those whom you find it hard to like and to those who seem to you unloving and ungrateful?
• Are you working towards the removal of social injustices?
• Are you always ready, with God’s help, to work towards reconciliation between individuals, groups and nations?
• Do you behave in a loving way towards all men and women, whatever their race, background or opinion?
• Does your day-to-day living reflect that you are at peace within yourself; showing in all you do that you have a caring and loving attitude towards others?
• Are you conscious in your daily living of the effects of your buying on questions of social justice?
• Are you conscious of hidden and subtle forms of violence that occur with ageism, racism, sexism, classism and other forms of exploitation and oppression?
• Are you alert to the way violence is so often portrayed as acceptable on television, in films, in video and computer games, and in other means of mass entertainment?
• Do you live as simply as you can?
• Do you keep yourself well informed on questions of peace and social justice?