Whenever the President of the United States gives a speech or has a press conference, hanging on the podium is the presidential seal. I read that the seal has an eagle and one talon he has a bunch of arrows, and the other talon a bunch of olive branches. The arrows would speak of war; the olive branches would speak of peace. Apparently in an earlier version, the eagle is looking at arrows; President Truman ordered that it be reversed that the eagle would look at the olive branches—to show a desire always for peace.
We’re just beginning the Advent season, which will speak often times about the quest for peace. In the first reading today, it’s a reading from Isaiah, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
Maybe as we begin our Advent season, we can pray for peace How we might be at war with ourselves or with another person. These weeks of Advent urge us to seek peace.
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