This reminded me of a verse: Isaiah 2:4- "He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."

Your entry is what I wanted to say, but it came out in clumsy prose. You truly have the heart of a poet!

I especially like the line: "Let us be tending and nurturing / in our spaces to one another." It sometimes feels like all we can do...but it does matter!