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Written by Ed Howes
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
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Word Count: 728 Spiritual Warfare
You and I each have the power and authority to rule the world and do a great
job of it. What we lack is the wisdom to know how to apply this power and
authority. What a shame it is we are too busy with more important matters!
Because we are so busy with such important matters as overfill our waking hours,
the wisest among us have taken time out to teach the rest of us what to do with
our time out when we decide to take some. But then we always have better plans
for any free time, I’m sure. This allows the weak and fearful to rule the
world while the media reports on the violence and regression. We are left to
wonder what will be next on the global stage. It is easy for us to subscribe to
the accidental theory of history; summarized as stuff happens. Yeah, stuff
happens – just like your weekly paycheck. Take a long vacation and see how
long that continues to happen.
Is anybody making money in or because of Iraq? Will they be glad when it’s
over? Will they be ruined by peace? Or will they simply suffer smaller profits?
Or will they just move on to the next crisis - or create it? Let us all suffer
peace profits.
If you or I rule the world and outlaw war, we can be sure we will be martyred in
short order, so there seems to be no point in backing away from our busyness. On
the other hand, if each of us just backed off for thirty to sixty minutes each
day in a joint effort to create peace - and we amount to a few million souls
around the world; it will require global destruction to martyr us all. This
becomes pointless to the weak and fearful for they need someone to rule over.
Therefore, in our current circumstance, our easily accessible power lies in our
spiritual practice and our numbers. How many of us will devote an hour or less
each day to a global effort? Only those of us who understand spiritual power and
authority? Perhaps all of us and those who would merely like to believe enough
to spend the time and develop a daily spiritual practice - if only to see what
happens. Adventurers. We could become so many in such short time if we were not
such die hard skeptics. It’ll never work. It never worked before. I only ask
when it was last tried.
We can daily pray for and bless the puppets we call leaders until the cows come
home and see very little progress. But once we acknowledge they are the puppets
of those who buy elections, we can begin blessing and praying for the puppet
masters. We need not know their names. Wisdom is the principle thing. Wisdom is
the world’s greatest need. If the people with all the economic and military
power were wise, we would have peace on earth. When you create just a little
more peace in your own life and I in mine, the world becomes a more peaceful
place. When we are at peace, in and with our busy, harried selves we become part
of the solution, while we are yet part of the problem. We can call this progress
and we can call ourselves progressive. Even if the regressives make progressive
a dirty word, there will be no cause to hang our heads. We will be winning the
war on regression. We will be winning the spiritual war.
When we are at peace in and with ourselves, if only for thirty minutes, we can
send wisdom to all regressives everywhere, but especially to the mega profiteers
who make war, not love. Who are devoid of compassion and caring. We can do this
even without having great wisdom ourselves. There is enough wisdom in desiring
that others possess it. While sending wisdom, we can as easily send compassion
and caring, which is the first result of wisdom in any case. While we are at it
we can acquire wisdom for ourselves and loved ones. It is only a matter of
intention and desire. I leave you with just one question: Is wisdom and world
peace worth any of your time?
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