Imagine a world where no one fights, where everyone lives in harmony. What a beautiful world that would be! For as long as people have existed, we have dreamed of such a place — a peaceful world without pain, fear, or sorrow. Yet, history tells a different story. Page after page, our past is marked by wars, battles, and the cries of the innocent.
Even today, the world still longs for peace. Just recently, U.S. President Donald J. Trump celebrated an agreement between Hamas and Israel — a promise to release the remaining hostages taken during the tragic October 7, 2023 attack. The president wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Blessed are the peacemakers!”
Those words come from the Bible, where Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). To make peace is to reflect the heart of God Himself — for Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, and God, the God of peace.
But if we look around us, do we truly see peace? Sadly, peace still seems to slip through our fingers. The United Nations was founded in 1945, after the horrors of World War II, to protect the world from war and to keep the peace. Humanity hoped that such suffering would never happen again.
Yet eighty years later, people still fight. Wars still rage — in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and even close to home in the West Philippine Sea, where tensions continue to rise. The dream of peace feels as distant as ever.
Perhaps peace has always been both an elusion and an illusion — something we keep reaching for but never truly grasp. Still, it is a dream worth holding onto, because as long as we believe in peace, there is hope that one day, it may finally become real.
Even today, the world still longs for peace. Just recently, U.S. President Donald J. Trump celebrated an agreement between Hamas and Israel — a promise to release the remaining hostages taken during the tragic October 7, 2023 attack. The president wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Blessed are the peacemakers!”
Those words come from the Bible, where Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). To make peace is to reflect the heart of God Himself — for Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, and God, the God of peace.
But if we look around us, do we truly see peace? Sadly, peace still seems to slip through our fingers. The United Nations was founded in 1945, after the horrors of World War II, to protect the world from war and to keep the peace. Humanity hoped that such suffering would never happen again.
Yet eighty years later, people still fight. Wars still rage — in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and even close to home in the West Philippine Sea, where tensions continue to rise. The dream of peace feels as distant as ever.
Perhaps peace has always been both an elusion and an illusion — something we keep reaching for but never truly grasp. Still, it is a dream worth holding onto, because as long as we believe in peace, there is hope that one day, it may finally become real.