{"id":1707,"date":"2014-03-04T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2014-03-04T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:22:06","slug":"valley-of-peace-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/2014\/03\/04\/valley-of-peace-still-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley of Peace &#8211; still there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas writes:<br \/>\nDear friends in the world,<br \/>\nI am now already nearly 4 weeks in the Valley of Peace, foto see further down, and it seems, that I stay until easter &#8211; 20th April &#8211; at least\/or leave than &#8211; In sh&#8217;allah.<br \/>\nEveryone is very welcome, to join in the spirit of peace and mindfulness. If you want to meditate, pray, work, walk, or&#8230;. you are very welcome, however long.<\/p>\n<p>As we do not have any volunteer yet &#8211; I am during the week mostly alone at the Valley &#8211; I decided to start a 7 weeks retreat until Easter from tomorrow on. (at the weekend always some visitors come, mainly on friday)<br \/>\nDuring this time I will continue my work there on the property and at the street, cleaning, clearing, building up energy&#8230;&#8230;. (also to find out, how everything should be manifested &#8211; what does the universe want us to build up there, how can it be brought to this Jordan-Valley, country, the Middle east area).<br \/>\nI will pray and meditate a lot, be partly in silence and work in mindfulness. Maybe some friends from Europe like to come around Easter?<\/p>\n<p>Dear friends,<br \/>\nI really like to offer my skills and practice in mindfulness to you all, and my practice in peace-work. Maybe a peace walk for a week or so, will also manifest in this time.<\/p>\n<p>Until now we<br \/>\n&#8211; made the toilet and kitchen working, still some little problems<br \/>\n&#8211; started a project at the street, cleaning the area in front of the property from trash, than maybe with kids from school classes the whole street<br \/>\n&#8211; cleaned more or less the property from old trash, convince everyone, not to burn any plastic&#8230;..<br \/>\n&#8211; cleaned the meditation\/prayer room<br \/>\n&#8211; painted a sign &#8222;Valley of Peace&#8220; and a trash bin at the street<br \/>\n&#8211; started a art-work at one of the trees<br \/>\n&#8211; installed a smoking area &#8211; not easy to convince the people, to smoke only there &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; helped an ill man to get healthy and walking again<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It seems, that we have every friday a public sharing at 3pm. Very nice!!!!<\/p>\n<p>You are any time welcome!!!!<br \/>\nThomas and Mohammed<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=425647084232222&#038;set=a.425647154232215.1073741827.425645657565698&#038;type=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas writes: Dear friends in the world, I am now already nearly 4 weeks in the Valley of Peace, foto see further down, and it seems, that I stay until easter &#8211; 20th April &#8211; at least\/or leave than &#8211; In sh&#8217;allah. Everyone is very welcome, to join in the spirit of peace and mindfulness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}