 Peace Prayer Day, 1997  |
Peace Prayer Day, 1997
SS Siri Ram Kaur Khalsa
Director of Peace Prayer Day
Peace Prayer Day, June 21st, was a bright and beautiful experience of unity that uplifted spirits and opened hearts. The diverse, fast-moving program was highlighted by the Siri Singh Sahib’s profound and loving address and punctuated by presentations by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Reverend Talitha Arnold, and Siri Sat Guru Jagjit Singhji Maharaj. Amazing rhythms and music by Wah Music!, Curtis Coleman, Jackie Carlyle and Matthew Andrae were enthusiastically received, and an encore demanded, for our 12th Annual Peace Prayer Day celebration on the sacred land of Ram Das Puri in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Many other wonderful musical guests enriched the spirit of the day with their songs.
New Mexico’s own Bill Richardson, Ambassador to the United Nations, was the recipient of the 1997 Man of Peace award. Actress Marsha Mason shared her inspiring thoughts about the beauty of New Mexico and its spirituality.
One of the key ways to bring peace internationally is to work for peace within our own being and Peace Prayer Day includes the Sacred Healing Walk given to us by the Hopi elders and performed barefoot according to ancient tradition. Surely every opportunity to work for peace in the world is welcomed by people of consciousness. Everyone attending Peace Prayer Day 1997 joined wholeheartedly with their prayers, meditations and joyful songs to form a powerful vibration of peace which will certainly continue to expand within them and spread out to the entire world. "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."