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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tim Thornton, Bishop to the Armed Forces

Good morning.

On this day we remember the end of the First World War the moment when the guns went silent. It鈥檚 one hundred years ago today that the body of the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey. The anonymity of that soldier is a significant and poignant reminder of how many people lost their lives in conflicts and their bodies do not come home, they are unknown. There is so much unknown about war and perhaps the biggest unknown is when it does come to an end and when we can say that peace has arrived

When did the war, any war for that matter, in fact come to an end? The ceasing of fighting doesn鈥檛 bring about peace. Tragically some fighting continues after the formal cease fire is called and of course more than that we know how the deep feelings of hatred and the consequences of war go on affecting people and nations for so very long.

As we note the one hundredth anniversary of the burial of the unknown warrior may we strive to work for peace in our world aware that its presence is in many ways unknown and peace appears to stretch out of our reach. Peace is not the absence of war. True peace is a presence of a deeper sense of relating to one another and a desire to work for the common good.

Almighty God, from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed: kindle, we pray, in the hearts of all, the true love of peace and guide with your pure and peaceable wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth that in tranquillity your kingdom may go forward, till the earth is filled with the knowledge of your love; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.

Amen