True freedom and true peace are cousins, but they can only work together if the freedom of one people is seen in relation to the freedom of another. Struggles for freedom and peace can only enhance each other if the peace people seek is a robust harmony in which conflict is embraced and people are encouraged to imagine a far stronger freedom and peace. In this article, the author shares her personal story. She suspects that her life work of educating for justice, compassion, and peace is an effort to learn more fully what her friend was trying to teach her and to help others to learn it so all of them together can invoke freedom and just peace for all. She argues that the educational role of faculty, students, or administrators is to enter the world of messy existence with Holy wisdom, human fallibility, and whole-hearted commitment to the freedom and just peace of the world.