Peace on Earth with all the Fixin's...

From various ancient word of mouth stories and manuscripts It appears that our planet has been through four or five incarnations.   In other words civilization has essentially ended and been reborn 4 or 5 times.   According to current information also from various sources this time around we were able to do what was necessary to get beyond the end of the world scenarios and are on track to birth ourselves into a mature, creative, peaceful race.  To look out onto the world right now, listen to our news programs, and read our newspapers it certainly doesn’t look like we are on the road to a peaceful world.   However I also agree with the idea that the evil men do is exactly that... evil that men do.   And if we cause a problem that means we can solve those problems.
It will mean being painfully honest with ourselves and taking full responsibility for ourselves and our race.   That which separates us from our animal friends is the fact that WE CAN THINK.    Our lives are not decided by instinct and beyond our control.
If we are in line to create a golden age, a new dawn, a peaceful creative world then I believe we can make the choices that will get us there.   Think about it my friends....   then be honest and be responsible and help our children create Peace on Earth with all the fixin’s.    

A Job for You...

Do you watch the news, or perhaps, don’t watch the news anymore because you see all the pain, and violence, and terrible things happening, nasty weather, earthquakes.   OMG it’s just too much... the world is going to hell in a handbasket (whatever that means).  You are probably tired of me telling you that these are the birth pangs of a world we would really want to live in.  Well I have a job for you.   It has a couple of parts to it.  First of all your job is to stay positive.  Allow yourself to settle into a peaceful acceptance of what is and believe with all your heart that it is change for the better.  
And the second part of your job is to do something about it.   Now I totally understand we are not all Martin Luther King Junior, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Jesus, any of the other known heroes.   But you have opinions, ideas.  I think a lot of people understand what is going on with politics.  What I want you to do is think about what you would do with a particular world/national/local/community/personal challenge.  Think about what could be done to improve or change that situation using love, fairness, honesty, unity as your basis for change.  Then think about all of the people you influence.  Your spouse, your friend, your sibling, your child, your grandchild.   Break the subject to them.  Tell them there are solutions to the worlds’ problems that don’t involve hate/violence/exploitation.  If you have thought of a solution tell them this is what you would do.   You may not have the courage or the ability to do it yourself.   Ask them to come up with their own ideas. You may be the one that sparks the fire within a child that comes up with the solution to hunger, energy, peace...   It doesn’t matter if it was your idea, if you were not the one to bring it about.  The earth holds your energy....  The world knows.....
A quote from Wilfred A. Peterson that I used in 1962 during a high school graduation speech.  “As you throw the weight of your influence on the side of the good, the true and the beautiful, your life will go on in others, bigger, finer, nobler, than you ever dared to be...”