I read something on the internet this morning that really
started me thinking. There are times that might not be a good thing! The
comment was made that the New Age Movement was going to fail. This comment was
based upon the 60’s and the hippie movement that existed at that time. Their
reasoning was that there was no lasting peace on earth created then and there
won’t be any created now. The attempt is destined to fail and therefore shouldn’t
be attempted again.
I was a girl during the 60’s but I have watched different
things about the 60’s in documentaries. I was more than old enough to
understand the conflicts of the Vietnam War, and I don’t mean the conflicts on
the battle field, but the ones that existed here at home. I feel shame for the
way that the soldiers were treated upon coming home by the Country that sent
them to fight in the first place.
In the name of peace,
there were many protests that ended up in violence. Is this any different than
attacking another country in the name of God? The peaceful sit-ins were
designed to bring about conflict and most of the time they succeeded in doing
just that, the conflicts became very ugly at times.
Today, people still do things in the name of peace that
bring about so much violence that peace is never attained. Where am I going
with this? I wonder myself ….
Mother Nature and all of the inhabitants on this Earth need
to have balance for things to work as they should. Mother Nature has a way of
bringing this back into balance, normally in a very big and blustery way, but
balance is obtained once more, if only for a short period of time.
My Great-Grandma Whisler was brought to mind this morning
while I was contemplating the words that I read. She was a person that inspired
others to be just like her. She never judged anyone; she never condemned
anything that others were doing. She was gentle and you always felt the love
that she had for everything when you were in her presence. She didn’t need to
have a sit-in for peace to appear around her. She didn’t need to protest a war,
march at a soldiers funeral, stand in front of a bulldozer, or become a suicide
bomber to get her message across. All she had to do was be herself, and she was
pure, non-judgmental love. I wanted to be just like her as did countless
others.
Peace comes one person at a time. It comes from the heart of
each person and as that person begins living their truth, the next person wants
to know how they can be like the first person. It becomes a ripple effect and
it is achieved without blowing anything up in the name of peace.
It’s a hard thing to achieve, this state of pure love.
Great-Grandma did and she did it way before this so called New Age Movement.
The answers lie within each of us, look inside of yourself and find your truth.
Live your own principles every day and live in integrity. Take things one day
at a time and then the next and then the next. Soon, it will be a way of life.
Never beat yourself up if you slide backwards for a day, but remember that you
always start where you are and you have a limitless supply of fresh starts.
As Brad and I heard at the Battlefield of Custard’s Last
stand “Power is in Peace rather than Peace is in Power”.
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