ng of Thomas Merton, Cultivating Peace, is a case study based on Thomas Merton's writing. The research of his work is essential to literary collections, worldwide, for insights into peace studies and may be helpful for creating new perspectives into opportunities for actions concerning faith, service, or contemplative life. Investigations of excerpts of the literature of Merton, as well as applications of theoretical processes regarding the approaches of his writing about civil rights, suggest that he awakens peace. The reader is invited to create a peace project in a section of the text. We may use the writing of Merton to establish new models. Through action research qualitative case study, Dr. Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo shares a year of reading, annotating, and journaling about selected work by Merton. During the period of research and writing, Maryann experienced a miraculous healing of her lumbar spine.