Christian Reflection and Prayer

Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.

On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."

Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...

"PEACE ON EARTH" was all it said.

QUOTE:

Annabel Wolfson Advocate for Social Justice,
Anti-Conscription Activist (1915-1983)

"It seems that it would be apparent to
anyone who gave the matter a thought
that money spent for cooperative
peacekeeping is a better investment than
money spent for deterrence by mutual and
ever-increasing terror, yet the great powers
of the world continue to lavish their resources
on the latter."