President Barack Obama is in Norway to receive his Nobel Peace Prize and to attend the Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen. This is a momentous time in history, whether it is signing on to end the ecological damage of global warming or passing a Health Care package that promises all Americans have health coverage or most of all, to have peace on earth in these troubled times.
President Obama spoke of peace requiring sacrifice and I weigh in to say that all of the programs I have mentioned require sacrifice. Many times I feel that we as a nation are not willing to give up our comforts in order to see that all of us can have decent medical coverage when we are sick. We can ignore the ravages of toxic emissions at our own peril—the planet will not be able to survive if we don’t take measures to clean it up. And peace will come with sacrifice and none dearer than having to accept the cultures and religions of the world. We must stop the rhetoric that we are justified in invading someone else’s country. I remember only too well how McCarthyism sprang up because one US Senator and his cronies tried to convince our country and the world that communism was a cancerous menace that threatened to take over our country, if not the world.
Are you a person of compassion? Do you feel that we are all interrelated and interconnected? Open yourself to all possibilities for all of us.
Albert Clayton Gaulden is the founding director of the Sedona Intensive and author of You’re Not Who You Think You Are: A Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You. For more information about Albert and Sedona Intensive visit http://www.sedonaintensive.com/.
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