I believe world peace is possible. I really do.

 

I also recognize that a lot of extremely wise spiritual practitioners: Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Jesus... to name a few, have not been able to snap their fingers and miraculously stop human beings from killing one another.

 

Many of the talks I give and the lessons I teach are about opening ourselves up to the grand possibilities of Life, and world peace is one of the grandest of all. I do believe that if we can imagine that world peace is possible to God, it is also possible to us. I really do.

 

I would love to think that I will somehow, some day come up with the perfect explanation of Life, Love, and Unlimited Possibility and Potential which will in some magical manner convince everyone on the planet that it is time to lay down weapons and live in the perfect peace which is our birthright. And... I think that is a very unrealistic expectation which is only likely to create frustration and disappointment on my part. That belief that any one of us could somehow over-ride everyone's free will is very grounded in the belief of the ego that it can somehow control things. "Oh wow cool! I could be the one to save everyone! I can fix this sorry state of affairs!" From there, it is a very short hop, skip, and jump to the statement that, "If you will all just sit down, shut up, and do what I tell you, THEN we could finally get it together and live in peace."

 

I am very aware that this belief resides in my ego consciousness. It is a well-intentioned but completely egoic and ridiculous expectation.

 

There is a song by Jana Stanfield in which she sings, "I cannot do all the Good that the world needs, but the world needs all the Good I can do." The most helpful question is not, "How can I solve the world's problems?" That question simply keeps our focus on the problems and appearance of evil in the world. (And when we focus on something, what is it that we get more of?) The most helpful question is, "What Good can I do today, right here, right now, in this moment, in this place, with the resources available to me?"

 

If I choose to be still, go within, listen, and allow my heart to remain open no matter what the news of the day may report, I will learn that the great unlimited Light of Spirit can become a laser beam, guiding me to ways I can walk the path of BEING peace in the world:

These may seem like such little things, unimportant in the scheme of world affairs. Yet, when we allow ourselves to be overcome with the enormity of world situations, we can easily be drawn into that segment of the collective human consciousness which feels hopeless. We become part of the darkness simply because we have allowed our Light be hidden by despair. What Good can I express here, now? What is the Good I can do in this moment? World peace is a choice, which must be made in free will by billions of human beings, one decision at a time. As long as we have free will (and that seems to be a basic part of our fully-human, fully-divine operating system) we each get to choose. We do not get to impose our choice on others, no matter how terrible their choices may seem to us. We only get to decide how we show up in the world. We only have dominion over our own choices.

 

At the close of our Posi concert last weekend, nearly 200 fully-human, fully-divine beings stood together in one room in Tucson to sing Daniel Nahmod's song, Love is My Decision. That is the Good that each one of us can do, in each moment of every day of our lives. We can decide to BE peace in the world. We can decide that each choice we make will reflect our commitment to respond with love, no matter what. In each moment that we choose to BE peace in the world, world peace is one choice closer.

 

There is no secret magic wand for the world's "problems". There is only the choice, made over and over and over and over again by each individual inhabiting this world to choose peace. We don't need to "fix" anything. We just need to assume responsibility for our own choices. Each choice for peace brings us closer. Each choice for something-other-than-peace takes us that much further away. It really is that simple. Life is choices. Choose wisely, choose responsibly. Choose peace by choosing Love. No matter what.