Peace.

Today is the International Day of Peace and our church is decorated with hundreds of paper cranes.

This is to commemorate the story of Sadako and the Thousand Cranes.

Sadako was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

She developed leukemia and folded a thousand paper cranes in the hope of being healed.

Unfortunately she died some years later.

But the thousand cranes were placed in the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima.

And they are still there today.

Now more than ever our world needs peace.

Conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine disturb us daily.

Myanmar and Kashmir have seen armed revolts.

Even the United States is on the brink of violence.

So pray for peace.

And do what you can to bring peace in our world.

Photo Credit: AU$100.