In Mathews' Gospel, chapter XIII, vv. 1 to 9, we find a story of a deep and beautiful lesson given by Jesus:

The apostle recalls that:

Later that same day, Jesus left the house and went down to the shore, where an immense crowd soon gathered.

He got into a boat, where he sat and taught as the people listened on the shore. He told many stories, such as this one: "A farmer went out to plant some seed...."

We then wonder who a farmer would be. Would he be a saint, a prophet, somebody specially chosen?

No. A farmer is someone who rolls up his sleeves, gets the seeds and goes out planting.

After doing his share, he trusts on the fertile soil to favor germination, flowering and fruiting.

He is aware of the fact that some seeds will be lost, even though he plants anyway.

History has had many farmers, who spread the seeds of noble thoughts...

But due to carelessness, indolence or unwillingness of the ones who received them, many did not germinate...

Others, however, sprouted and gave good fruits, giving the opportunity to many people to get new and promising seeds.

We found one of these farmers in our days.

What religion does he believe in?  What is his social level? What schooling level is his ? All that does not matter. He is just a farmer...

Many years ago he started, counting on a friend's help, a movement called You are the peace.

When he concluded one of these events, he told us a little bit about his experience:

When we started we faced many uncertainties...

So much declared and concealed violence!

Would silence be licit, in the name of humanity, of God's trust, or would it be fair to just transfer this task to the heavens?

After a lot of reflection, for more than a year, after visiting more than 30 prisons and 50 jails...

Living in a miserable and aggressive neighbourhood, working with children who knew only abandonment and aggressiveness, I decided, with a friend who was determined to help me, to start the movement.

You are the peace, because violence is inside the person, and as one gets better, the world around gets better too.

I went on. There was a huge repercussion with the public. But it was the middle class people who made themselves present.

So I decided to visit also the violent suburban neighbourhoods. The receptivity in these communities was impressive and touching.

We visited 32 neighbourhoods in the last years, talking to people from raising platforms put in small squares.

Interviews on television, radio and newspapers, took more than 15.000 people on the Ninth Event we have just organized.

There is a remarkable christian, classic preacher, in the lucidity of his 86 years of age, who has accompanied us in the last four years, supporting our desire of turning the event a neutral one, with no political or religious connotation.

I have learned that Christ's proposal is challenging, non comformist, non hypocritical, not speaking with a soft voice to seem noble nor with insincerity to disguise inferiority.

Remembering Jesus in those events in public squares, I have taken Him to the humiliated and forgotten people.

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This farmer has been travelling for more than 60 years around the World, taking the good seed. He knows that the conquest of peace is a challenge that demands urgency and powerful hands. And the farmer went out to plant some seeds...

His working tool is his voice, clear and soft as a spring breeze that takes the seeds and puts them in the soil, with no alarm...

His saddlebag is his kind and sweet heart, his person being an inexhaustible seed field.

His ideal is love without borders... unconditional love that, like a rose bud, opens up and exhales its perfume to everybody...

His name? For him it is not important, but we believe it fair to say: Divaldo Franco.

When you hear this name, you can be sure you are talking about an untiring peace farmer...

Spiritist Moment Team, based on chapter XVIII, item 5 of the book
O evangelho segundo o espiritismo, publishing house: Feb.
July 13.2009.