What Would Peace On Earth Look Like?

Wishing you a happy Christmas Eve

 Would it be just Pax, the absence of active warfare? Would that be a good place to start? Bringing it up to a neutral state?

It has to be more than that.  How about Shalom. Hebrew, literally "peace," properly "completeness, soundness, welfare," from stem of shalam "was intact, was complete, was in good health." 

Complete welfare. Soundness. It sounds like health with all needs supplied. Peace on earth, shalom, for everyone. Good will toward men.

It sounds to me like it must start in each human heart, mine in fact. There was a simple directive to that effect. Messiah said, love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself.

It's a big neighborhood. Looking around a bit, I see that it includes the stars and all of creation. But right here and now we deal with here and now.

Maybe when we think of the earthly peaceable kingdom we think of something agrarian. 

It doesn't have to be, though it certainly would include that world.  If mankind spent the money and energy on invention and exploration that we spend on warfare and oppression it is beyond imagination what we could do.

We could be swinging on a star!