"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that,if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships--the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together in the same world,at peace."
-F.D. Roosevelt,1945
I saw this quote while visiting the museum at the St. Louis Arch and thought it was ironic because here I was at a staff conference for Intervarsity Press who publishes books on racial reconciliation. And not only that, but I was also amongst about 1200 college students of all different ethnic backgrounds, who work on college campuses around the country and probably deal with this subject on a daily basis. To be amongst this large of a crowd and feeling a sense of peace was very gratifying.
I also belong to a church which has probably the largest variety of ethnicity that one could ever hope to be a part of and within those four walls there is peace.
If we are going to succeed at peace than surely God must be used within that involvement for peace.
And hopefully peace will be accomplished before the 100 year mark of when Roosevelt had dreamed of peace.
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