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One recent writer on the Peace Pilgrim sites Elise Boulding in trying to explain the Peace Pilgrim’s and other Peace Witnesses.
In Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History, Boulding states: "The great humane nurturer-leaders of the past have always come walking. They do not sit either on thrones or horseback but engage in dialogue at eye level. [...And] they have always sought solitude and privacy in alternation with their work in the public arena."
Incidentally, FRIENDS OF PEACE PILGRIM have been working since the 1980s to spread the Peace pilgrim’s message and story of her journey and impact.
http://www.peacepilgrim.com/news/index.htm
Peace Pilgrim, like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., have left an impression on non-violent activists and peacemakers around the world.
Let’s teach our children about the Peace Pilgrim and other important heroes—and do it NOW before the children get too many modern distractions to listen to the silent witness of people like her—i.e. while we and our children are needing to search for inner and social peace.
EPILOGUE: PEACE PILGRIM IN JERUSALEM SIGHTED
I received a photo from my friend Bill Walker this past Christmas. Walker told me that he had been on the hill (the Mount of Olives) overlooking Jerusalem where Jesus had wept over the city two millennia ago.
Just moments after Walker left the chapel that overlooked the walls of Jerusalem and the garden of Gethsemane, he came across a silent Peace Pilgrim.
Walker saw an Eastern European woman, dressed like her American counterpart of decades before in the USA.
This Eastern European was wearing baggy clothes--including wearing a sweater with the words “Peace Pilgrim” sewn on it.
This modern Peace Pilgrim was walking all the hills of Israel that very winter 2007-2008 praying and witnessing for peace.
We should be prepared for such a witness this year—and the next . . . . and the next . . . and the next.
In the meantime, download a book on the Peace Pilgrim—in her own words—at this website:
