{"id":4943,"date":"2013-04-16T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2013-04-16T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:53:48","slug":"no-more-hurting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"No more hurting people"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can think of no wiser words than those that 8-year-old Martin Richard scrawled in brightly colored markers on a poster for one of his school assignments:<\/p>\n

“no more hurting people”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, as perceptive and hope-filled as his short and powerful message was, ironically Martin Richard\u2019s life on earth came to an abrupt end at the Boston Marathon while he excitedly waited for his father to cross the finish line, not knowing that a bomb was placed within a short distance of him and his family by someone who had the specific intent of doing the very thing he was championing against: \u00a0hurting people.<\/em><\/p>\n

The utterance of these four words \u201cno more hurting people\u201d should cause us to pause and put some serious thought into where it is as a world we want to go \u2013 and how we are going to get there.\u00a0 Martin\u2019s call for peace is one that we have an opportunity to carry the torch forward on.\u00a0 Does anybody out there feel a responsibility to at least make an effort<\/i> to see to it that a world like the one that this young child envisioned and yearned for will one day be a reality not only for a handful of people, but for all<\/em> of Humanity<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\"o-MARTIN-RICHARD-DEAD-BOSTON-MARATHON-570\"<\/p>\n

If even the youngest in our society are choosing to be part of the change, what will you<\/i> choose to do?<\/p>\n

If even the most innocent in our world are stepping up and declaring their thoughts and ideas, what will you<\/i> declare?<\/p>\n

If even the most vulnerable among us have the courage to demonstrate Who They Are, who will you<\/i> demonstrate yourself to be?<\/p>\n

In the process of answering these questions, we may find ourselves wondering if God has anything to say about any of this. \u00a0Conversations with God<\/i> tells us that God talks to everyone.\u00a0 All the time.\u00a0 The question is not to whom does God talk, but who listens?<\/p>\n

Are we willing to consider the possibility that one of the ways in which God is speaking to us right here, right now, is through<\/em> this bright young man named Martin Richard?\u00a0 Perhaps in the same way that She spoke through another young man almost 2,000 years ago named Jesus?<\/p>\n

If we are willing to consider that possibility, then the bigger question for each and every one of us to consider is: Are we going to listen — and stop hurting people?<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

(Lisa McCormack is the Managing Editor & Administrator of The Global Conversation. She is also a member of the Spiritual Helper team at\u00a0www.ChangingChange.net<\/a>, a website offering emotional and spiritual support. To connect with Lisa, please e-mail her at<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>Lisa@TheGlobalConversation.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can think of no wiser words than those that 8-year-old Martin Richard scrawled in brightly colored markers on a poster for one of his school assignments: “no more hurting people” However, as perceptive and hope-filled as his short and powerful message was, ironically Martin Richard\u2019s life on earth came to an abrupt end at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[1132,1133,1130,4,231,1131],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romance-and-relationships","tag-bomb","tag-boston","tag-boston-marathon","tag-conversations-with-god","tag-lisa-mccormack","tag-martin-richard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}