Zekerullah, a 13 year Afghan youth peace volunteer who is taking part in the peace vigils at Bamiyan Peace Park, is learning to walk that 2nd mile for love.
Love speaks the truth with gentleness, calling corruption corruption, not a budding democracy.
Love will not nurture greed in Afghan robes or international suits.
Love walks 2 hours in the mud to earn a decent penny though it is aware that, by economic design, money and power are not with those who walk.
Love deliberately asks ‘Does Zekerullah deserve a decent livelihood as much as I do?’
Love waits eagerly for peace and justice, even if, by ‘fateful neglect’, it is un-noticed and un-rewarded.
Love knows that killing in whatever name, even in the name of ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’, is killing. Killing removes life and love; we are not able to justify to Zekerullah that killing is a civil response for our ‘contingencies’.
Love recognizes that war is not peace, whatever its prize.
Love empathizes with soldiers and victims who suffer post-traumatic stress, knowing that it is an ORDER of human conscience that can guide Mankind to wholeness, pleading ‘Enough. Please stop!’
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