Planting for Peace

A group of Brahma Kumaris students and volunteers from St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace came together to plant trees and share spiritual understanding and experiences at the William Robinson Gravetye Estate near Horsham in West Sussex over a weekend in January. The weekend is one of many organised by St Ethelburga’s around the UK. It was interspersed with meditation and spiritual sharing, acknowledging the past actions that have harmed people, the land and species – seeking forgiveness, being grateful and honouring the act of reconciliation and peace. The hectare of land planted with 340 trees was aptly named ‘Peace Wood’.