Theme: Peace

Looking for peace

There was once a king who offered a great prize to the artist who could capture perfect peace in a painting. Many artists then tried to express peace. The king looked at and admired all the paintings, but there were only two paintings that he liked, and he had to choose between them.

The first was a very peaceful lake. This lake was a perfect mirror where the placid mountains that surrounded it were reflected. Above these was a blue sky with thin white clouds. Everyone who looked at this painting thought it reflected perfect peace.

The second painting also had mountains. But these were rough and uncovered. Above them was a furious sky from which came a rushing downpour with lightning and thunder. Down the mountain there seemed to be a strong, foaming torrent of water rumbled. All this did not turn out to be peaceful.

But when the king looked carefully, he saw behind the waterfall a delicate bush growing in the gap of a rock. In that bush there was a nest. There, amid the roar of the violent waterfall, a little bird sat placidly in its nest...

- Perfect peace...?

- Which painting do you believe was the winner?

The king chose the second.

- You know why?

	The king explained: 'Peace does not mean being in a place without noise, without problems, without hard work or pain. Peace means that, despite being in the midst of all
these things, we manage to remain calm within our hearts. This is the true meaning of peace'.

(Text from the website br.guiainfantil.com)

Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com

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