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Peace, Innovation and the SouthWest

If looking for inspiration is your thing, then look no further than the SouthWest corner of Utah. The natural beauty inherent in the national parks here rival any man made creation anywhere, anyplace. The splendor of this land is truly beyond belief and makes one think very hard about the meaning embedded in the red-colored canyon walls. This beauty can only and truly be experienced by hiking deep into the canyons. Here one finds riveting peace and quiet once one pulls away from the throng of tourists going for the quick hikes. A peace punctuated by overarching silence and only the sounds of the natural World sans humans. Peace being what it is; something that we all want, is an interesting subject more so when one sees a billboard on the side of the road asking the following: "Can peace be achieved without prayer?" The implication that peace cannot be achieved without it is really upsetting to me and drove the writing of this blog. We humans have the power to use what God,