I try to avoid the political on my blog because I am not overtly political. Yet, I can tell you this about myself.... I am a dreamer! I have a vision for what I think the world should be. What brought this up? Well, last week I was driving to work and some guy on the radio started talking about the Israel -Palestinian conflicts. And he started the "If this -then that" dialogue. Each time he gave an "If this -then that" scenario, the "then that" got worse. I found myself getting more and more stressed by the guy so I reached over, turned off the radio and took a deep breath. Who needs to listen to a joy kill?
Trouble is they seem to be everywhere. I hear people freaking out over gas prices, the environment, the war, the other war, pedophiles, celebrities, the mortgage crisis and the economy. And these are just a drop in the bucket. But I will tell you something I learned in grade school. If you go in to take a test and you're stressing over failing the test there is a good chance you will fail it. We need someone to start talking possibilities to us. For goodness sake, this country has landed a man on the moon, several times. I feel like we need to shut off all this panic talk and start getting solutions. Hope is a powerful thing but it often has a small voice and can be drowned out by "If this -then that." Yet hope can also be tenacious and will grab on and keep coming back even in the toughest time. Have you ever heard of the concept that the breeze from a butterflies wings is the action that ultimately makes up the power of a tornado or hurricane? So I am mentioning hope here in this little blog on the internet. Maybe someone else will mention it too and on and on to the point that it is the main thing we call for in this nation. Give us hope and then let's get to the solutions!
