Why do I not pray for PEACE?

I listened to an interview that Bill Hybels did with Jimmy Carter this morning. I know, I know, Jimmy Carter doesn't vote the same way that I might vote, and he doesn't have some of the same political agenda's that I might be willing to adhere to and he doesn't necessarily line up perfectly with conservative "republican" Christianity...But I learned from him. He was interesting. He talked about how after he had gone from being the president, the most powerful man in the world, to someone who was working on Habitat for Humanity houses for 25 years. He mentioned that this was fulfilling and a pssion for him. How? He had power, prestige, rule and yet he found his significance in helping those in physical need. Where do I find my signifance? Do I find it in people? Do I find it in pleasing others? Or do I find my significance resting solely in who Christ is and what he has done for the sin of the world? I am taken back by the things that happen worldwide and yet God has put me in Northwest Iowa and broken my heart for people there and now has moved me to Wichita, Kansas where he is breaking my heart for the people that are here. He has given me a mission, a vision, and a purpose. Am I willing to die for it? Am i willing to take a bullet and count the cost of the vision and mission that God has given me?

Why do I not pray for peace? If God is transcendent and All powerful, then why would I not pray for peace.

God grant this world peace. War begets war, and you say that the peacemaker is blessed. Bring about change in the hearts of those that would want to destroy and blind those that so acutely see war as the only way of dealing with things...

In your transcendent and most powerful name...