Peace

 There are two kinds of peace.  There is negative peace.  This is where we don’t have war or battle with one another.  This might be us and China.  But there is also positive peace.  This is where we seek the flourishing of others that we might otherwise battle.  Christians used to kill one another over religious differences.  Now we don’t. We have negative peace.  But if we help one another to flourish then we have positive peace.  I recall a born again church community in Vero Beach, Florida who offered the use of their building for Catholic mass while the new Catholic parish was constructing its own church building.  This is active peace.  You walk into an Addiction recovery meeting and see or hear a person you don’t like, you don’t punch them in the face.  This is negative peace.  But if you go up and introduce yourself and then offer to be of some service in their recovery, that is active peace.