Jan 26 2007

Give Peace A Chance

by Anthony Marinelli

“Give Peace a Chance” implies an action that we may still need to consider.  Violent protest for peace, aside from being a philosophical contradiction, also allows us to be distracted from the issue at hand by focusing our attention on anger or revenge instead.  We will only learn how to be better at violence by practicing it, and probably justify it’s existence as it pertains to our cause.

Peaceful and loving ways need not be passive, however, and may well consider justice toward evil actions. Although the healing process may require an unpleasant journey back to the source of pain, it could be enlightening without glorifying a particular horror.

Composer Anthony Marinelli with director of Chapter 27 J.P. Schafer

Chapter 27 gave me the opportunity to examine the message of John Lennon in an unexpected way. In dealing with my own feelings of anger toward the injustice of his senseless killing, I found his message of peace even more profound. We can be relieved of the burden of evil acts through inquiry, understanding and forgiveness.

His loss marked the end of a particular age of innocence and revolution. We must go on giving peace a chance, and therefore not let an evil action be the very thing that takes peace away from us.  We still have his message.  We still need it to survive.

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