| If you turn on the news you are pretty well | | | | there to help build on that peace or coming home |
| guaranteed to hear about the war. You will hear | | | | safely to enjoy their families as their will leads them. |
| terms like "middle east or Iraq or Africa terrorist | | | | There is a tendency to believe that if everyone |
| attack", "intelligence support to combating terrorism", | | | | would believe as we do, then we would have peace. |
| the "Iraq surg", and "terrorist target surveillance". I | | | | If our goal really is for peace, then it is not to |
| just returned home from being in the Middle East for | | | | convert and change everyone to our way of thinking. |
| three years so I am going off of hear-say on some | | | | That fear, and reality, is one of the reasons for our |
| of the generalities, but it sounds as if "the war" in the | | | | current situation. Imagine a world where everyone, |
| states is referring to the war in Iraq. Many refer to | | | | of any race, religion, or culture can live in harmony |
| the war in Afghanistan as "the forgotten war". Of | | | | and acceptance. Acceptance doesn't mean |
| course there is also the "War on Terror." Regardless | | | | conversion, it means allowing everyone to live |
| of which one we refer to, there is plenty of talk and | | | | peacefully with their own beliefs. |
| attention given to "the war." I have to admit I | | | | For those who focus closer to home, for example |
| believe it is a good thing in so far as it has enabled | | | | the war on terror and the twin towers terrorist |
| our country to support our military and to a lesser | | | | attack, the goal is to focus on tolerance and |
| extent those civilians serving overseas. What has | | | | acceptance. We can focus on the simple things like |
| happened however is we have an entire country, and | | | | getting to know our neighbors and creating |
| world, now focusing on war. Some people are | | | | community. If every community achieves peace, |
| pro-war and some are anti-war, but the focus is still | | | | again there is no war. |
| on war. | | | | Understand, we are not talking about sticking our |
| Those of us who study and live by the Law of | | | | heads in the sand. We are talking about focusing on |
| Attraction know that we receive more of what we | | | | the end desire. So, we need to be grateful for the |
| focus on. You don't have to think very hard to see | | | | peace that we do have now, of which there is an |
| the error in the focus. Some people think if we take | | | | amazing amount, but focus on the world peace to |
| our focus off the war that we are no longer | | | | come. |
| supporting our troops or working toward ending the | | | | This can be quite easy to accomplish. Every time you |
| war. Nothing could be further from the truth. As | | | | go to the store be grateful for the ease and safety |
| peace and war are mutually exclusive, if we manifest | | | | in which you travel and imagine that expanding across |
| peace the war will obviously be ended. We can | | | | the globe. Every time you go out to a restaurant, be |
| definitely continue supporting our troops as we are | | | | grateful that you can go effortlessly without guards |
| working toward achieving peace. The difference is in | | | | or weapons for protection and again, imagine that |
| our focus. I can safely say that the majority of | | | | security expanding outward. One day at a time, if we |
| those people I call friends are still very much involved | | | | focus on peace, we can and will manifest that |
| in the war. My thoughts do not exclude them, they | | | | wonderful vision. |
| focus on them achieving peace and either staying | | | | |