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, or energy, or whatever, gave us and we certainly have the power to achieve peace without prayer. There is nothing wrong with prayer, the power of prayer has been documented in brain research as well and has a positive effect in the same.

Innovative thinking and letting go of old ways of thinking is what we need in order to achieve peace. Oh yes- if forgot-we need to unsettle the established interests as well.

Why is this so hard?

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