Message Card for Week of 1/31/2022

Warming up your world.

For your own benefit and for the benefit of those around you, humans and pets alike, this is SO easy to do. Imagine if your neighbor did this for you, how good it would feel.

The woman who I used as a model for this illustration was Zeinab Mohamed Blanda, a woman i met who was living in the middle of war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. With the sounds of war in the background, in a refugee camp for those displaced by the civil war, she gathered women together to share meals and to promote peace. She said “Because it was a displaced area — it is not my village and it is not your village, it was a place that accommodated all of us — we had to respect each other and live in peace. And we carried that peace through the women leaders to the community.”

If she was brave enough to organize these gatherings in the middle of war, sure we can take a moment to find a place of love and forgiveness in the safety of our own homes.