When I was a little girl we would pray for World Peace at my little small town church. The year was 1949 and as I grew up I realized there wasn't much peace then. Europe was still in turmoil from WWII, the Korean War was heating up, the Irish were fighting the English, Africa and India were starving, the Middle East was fighting each other and no one trusted Aisa. Fast forward to 2005, not much has changed except America is the "cook" stiring this Mulligan Stew around the world.
As I've said a million times, "energy is just energy" the same energy that destroys also builds and I have wracked my brain to try and understand why, how and where so much destructive energy has been thrown into this pot.
History tells us that it's always been there, our own country was begun on violence and destruction, but the memory and passion of history fades and we think of it as not being as bad as this. During the Reagan Administration my father said the laws that were being enacted would soon show that the real division wasn't between black and white, men and women, young and old, or even between liberal and conservative, it would be between the haves and have nots; between big money and those without means to fight it.
We are looking frantically for someone, anyone to lead us out of this darkness but who will that be? The Democrats? The Green Party? A new Party? Ourselves? Who can we trust? The multi-demensional personalities and needs of a country or a world would say "no one can meet the needs of everyone." A good place to start however would be a "live and let live" person. But then there are the old, the sick, the achingly poor, the vulnerable, who helps them? Somewhere inside of us we all retain just a tiny bit of judgement toward who is deserving and who isn't, who belongs and who doesn't, who is right and who is wrong. We don't want to decide those questions, we want someone we've determined is wise enough to make those determinations fairly. We do know it isn't this administration, but for a ton of people this administration is deciding fairly (for those who already have)
The great teachers the great philosophers we revere, Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Confucius, Buddha, Plato, Socrates even Deepak Chopra, and the list goes on, told us, taught us how to live. All were peaceful, full of love, full of hope, full of faith, and most of all full of reality, a true reality not one that's been marketed and spun out. (by the way Socrates teacher was a woman)
I believe that wisdom comes from the feminine residing in us all, waiting to be unleashed. I also believe we are witnessing the pains of a new birth, and that new birth will ultimately be a better balance between the masculine and feminine.
One of the great gifts of the left-brain masculine side of us is their spatial ability, the ability to say "don't knock down this wall, it's a support wall and the whole house will come down." One of the great flaws of that quality is not seeing the "cultural support walls" and if you knock one of those down the whole society will collapse, including the people who knocked them down. We truly are in this together and that's the "reality" our great teachers and philosophers knew and every generation, every individual must strive to learn.
As much as our governments seem to be trying to make it about "them and us" they will struggle and so will we. There is no "them and us" it's only "us." All those who would try to make divisive will ultimately be up against the whole and will have to embrace or will be wandering in the wilderness alone.
In spite of the obvious inept and incomplete "left-brain" decisions being made, I see many signs of the "feminine" part of mankind rising, a movement toward the whole, and there is a long way to go, the world is changing and we will be changing with the rest of the world, but there will be a greater desire for peace.
I will be doing my 2006 predictions in a few days in the meantime let's be glad for this little respite during the holidays, if for no other reason than the hustle and bustle of life stops for a bit. If the only smile you give or receive is one from a grocery clerk be happy for that smile because it represents hope for the world.
And keep on looking for "Peace on Earth." Happy Holidays.