Lost generation to Generation of Peace

Change a negative message or understanding or indictment of the lost generation into something that is extremely empowering, inspiring, and hopeful.




“We are a lost generation,”
and it conveys a whole litany of things that we’re not going to be or do. It’s a pessimistic look at how possibly a young person going through difficult times might be looking at his or her world. “I’m a part of this lost generation, of this generation that’s going to put work before my family, is not going to understand the value of my children, and is going to factor in my divorce even before I get married.” All of these things are so depressing.

I hear that a child is lost, to my ears it means that child is lonely, an orphan seeking some understanding or truth. Many times young people feel lost when they cannot find their center, or core, or an understanding, or their relationship with God.
Instead of understanding this page of words and letters as almost a declaration of a lost generation, a generation that is lonely like an orphan, constantly seeking, never satisfied because it doesn’t have the truth, when we change the way of looking at exactly the same thing, we can turn a pessimistic, depressing, and hopeless message into one that is inspiring and promising.
Now the message alludes to a generation that is not lost but one that is found in God, in the understanding that we are his and her children.

Generation of Peace
I’ve defined what Generation of Peace is all about by understanding the word peace as an acronym. We are children of our Heavenly Parent, P. And E reminds us that we are their Eternal sons and daughters, with eternal meaning that we are divine human beings having incredible worth and a reservoir of true love that, once it’s tapped, we can do extraordinary things.
In the letter A, we see our philosophy of Altruism, living for the sake of others—not dying for the sake of others, but truly living, being empowered, and celebrating the life we have been given. We understand the importance of and the need for Compassion, C, in this cold, cold modern world. And so we recognize the value of empathy, being able to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and loving somebody not because we have to but because we want to.
Through the beautiful touch or healing of words of encouragement and nurture that we share with one another, we can become much stronger in our emotional, spiritual, and physical make-up. The final E stands for Excellence of internal and external—meaning we are internally excellent in terms of our life of faith and our understanding of who we are and what we need to do.
We are not a lost generation drifting on an endless sea with no direction, but we have a clear direction and purpose in our life. We know what we need to do. We know that we need to seize the moment, seize each day and make it worthwhile because, one step at a time, we are going toward that beautiful world we’re going to call our own, the world of peace.
In Jin Moon