OSB God is as really present in the small details as in the grand designs of life. It is only too easy to fudge the big picture with rhetoric or self-deception. It is small things that flesh out reality.
Incarnation is always the test of truth.
The participants at the John Main Seminar in Belfast in October will remember it through the details, the interactions and the insights, that touched them. It was an event with many dimensions. Plenary sessions and workshops on many aspects of inner and outer peace were led by several of the previous Seminar presenters. A day's Youth Forum brought together two hundred young people from all sides of the Northern Ireland community to reflect on non-violence in the witness of the lives of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi and the present Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama also had a parallel program of meetings during these three miraculously sunny October days that allowed him to meet and mingle with the ordinary people of Northern Ireland, with victims of violence, as well as with religious and political leaders.