I believe that America and other Western states are in fact very anxious and this can hinder many efforts for progress towards peacemaking that is so needed this day in age. The best definition for anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. In the twenty-first century our culture has turned to social media and technology for our news and information that strongly molds our opinions and in fact can be harmful to us as a society and may crate enmity among each other. As a society we have a common stigma against change that it is something that is nearly impossible and we try to convince ourselves that nothing needs to change and we begin to believe the world we live in is…show more content… In Forest’s Loving our Enemies, he suggests that we should be peacemakers through seeing other humans, as children of God and to love them instead of hate them. Like Jesus preaches in Matthew, Love your neighbor as your enemy and the Golden Rule: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”(Matthew 7:12). In the book it states, “ The unholy fear we are called away from both by angels and by Jesus is that fear which inspires cowardice, makes us deaf to conscience, blocks us from responding to those around us, makes us insensitive to others, blinds us in such a way that we fail to recognize others, including our enemies, as brothers and sisters” (Forest 59). This statement shows that when we are anxious and don’t have the courage to overcome our cowardice we are unable to love and to see other people as God’s children. I think Forest would suggest for our society that we need to reconcile with our enemies and love them and overcome our anxiety so that we can love everyone equally which is the only way we can ever create a peaceful
