Healthy Happy Loving Life: A Story in One Image

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This image of 200 people was taken on Peace Day 2013, at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I am the fourth person from the left, just behind the child.  [I give programs at the Center from time to time.] The figures in brown robes are Franciscan Friars who live at the Franciscan Renewal Center.  We gathered to make our statement of HOPE for the Planet.  We hope.  We pray.  We join hearts with anyone anywhere who wants peace and good for the Planet.

What would your statement for the Planet be? In what ways can you make your statement?

And that would be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Upbeat Living: Happy World Day of Peace!

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Today is World Day of Peace, appointed by the United Nations as an annual day of peace and ceasefire.  Even the Taliban has been cooperating with taking a day off from war, allowing humanitarian aid to flow into strife-torn areas.  For more on activities for this annual day, use your search bar to learn more about Jeremy Gilley, the founder and probably Chief Optimist of the movement, “Peace One Day”.  Many of us believe we can have peace in our time.  Today, in Phoenix, Arizona, about 250 people will gather at 6 pm, at the Franciscan Renewal Center, dressed in purple.  We will form the word, “MERCY”.  Like the word HOPE, in the photo above, our stubborn hearts believe that we are moving forward and helping to build the peace we wish to see.

Our beautiful planet and its 7 billion human tenants need peace now.  The other beings on the Planet need peace now.  The plant systems and climate systems on this extraordinary world need peace now.  There has been much upheaval lately, in climatic and human affairs.

We are at choice as to how we can help this peace come about.  We need to be good global citizens, work for social justice, develop our individual Peace Within, and pray often.  Number one is to keep ourselves grounded in our Peace Within, so we can keep up with the other needs.  Even prayer must come from a peaceful, hopeful, trusting heart.

With so many people so stressed out today, and with so many social issues hurting large numbers, it is crucial to stay as grounded and clear as you can, even joyful and grateful.  This is a major way you can help the Planet, and it’s a skill set.  Study positive ideas and books (such as Peace Within: Your Peaceful Inner Core), explore your faith, and keep returning to positive languaging and beliefs.  Learn to meditate, taking classes and increasing your personal peace-maintaining skills.  The more Peace Within you cultivate, the better your relationships will be, and the better able you will be to do what you can to help bring forth peace in our time.   Gandhi said,

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do.

For more on what you can do to bring about world peace, read the article Peace In Our Time: 3 Ways You Can Help ( http://wp.me/pyEwf-6C ) .  Then work on your Peace Within, and choose some other simple ways to help the World.  You can be a part of building the world your children will inherit.  And that’s Upbeat Living!

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• Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author.  She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are:  Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition. Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  That book and Peace Within are available through her office.  Just email books@kebba.com or call the office at 480-250-1177.
• For an appointment or to book Rev. Kebba to speak for your group, email calendar@kebba.com

 

UpBeat Living: Peace One Day

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Who wouldn’t like to live in a more peaceful society, even a world without war at all?  In 1999, a renewed movement toward just that was begun.  Jeremy Gilley, an actor and filmmaker, conceived of a day when a ceasefire would take place in all war zones, when non-violence would be practiced, for that one day.  In 2001, through the efforts of Gilley and his organization, Peace One Day, the United Nations unanimously adopted Peace Day, to recur annually, on September 21.

Gilley has made two films to promote the effort, Peace One Day and The Day After Peace.  His goal is to make Peace Day “self-sustaining, an annual day of global unity, [and] a day of intercultural cooperation on a scale that humanity has never known.”  On Peace Day, with a complete ceasefire, humanitarian organizations have been able to surge food and medical help into distressed areas, where normally they would be in mortal danger.  Even the Taliban has been cooperating with the effort.

One of Gilley’s programs is the Global Truce campaign, aimed at two results:  first, mobilizing

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more individuals than ever before, in the name of peace, and second, achieving the greatest drop in violence ever, in one day.  All this on September 21, 2013.  A series of coalitions have begun to share strategies and inspire each other.

According to the Peace One Day report for 2012, Peace Day 2012 activities reached about 280 million people, or 4% of the world’s population.  The goal is ultimately to reach 3 billion people.  Peace One Day helps individuals and groups become inspired as to specific activities they will conduct to reduce violence this year.  The 2013 theme is:  “Who Will You Make Peace With?”

To learn more about Peace One Day, and ways you or your organization can get involved, go to www.peaceoneday.org.  In 2011, Gilley gave a Ted Talk of 18 minutes, on the origin and activities of Peace One Day.  Find it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=04SEzifEsGg .

Peace is on the move.  Are you in?

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (on Amazon.com >Books>Buckley), and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (on Amazon.com >Books>Button).  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

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