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WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is a timely peace and hope offering to all people worldwide. It is filled with 70 chapters from this blog which has been around since January 2012. Since history has a habit of repeating itself, it is just as timely promoting peace, healing, and joy as the day each chapter was written.

I serve humanity in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates regardless of division, politics, religion, and social ideologies which often divide individuals based on race, skin color, gender, age, and/or belief system, or any other humanly contrived concoction.

I am a human being helping other human beings who also strive to live in peace, harmony, and for the unity and dignity of life for all people everywhere.

I am not political. I do not promote one religion over another. I am common sense.

I am an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church, ULC, which honors and respects all life-affirming people. Regardless of any belief system, all human beings are animated by our Spirits/Souls, all of which are Sparks of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates all of us, with or without any belief system. Even atheists and agnostics are alive in this way. It is not a belief system. This is a learning curve for all of us.

WISDOM hopes to inspire you with positive solutions to difficult situations in your own life. Healing the world begins with healing the individual, the family, our neighborhoods, our states, our countries, which then can spread out to the world.

Peace is possible.

Notice whatever you as an individual, each individual country, and the entire world focuses on GROWS.

If we focus on war, we get war from the seeds we intentionally planted.

If we focus on peace and reconciliation, we will foster more human responses.

This is the reason we have a conscience, because we are so powerful, we can choose evil over good, just as easy as we can choose good over evil any minute of any day. The choice is ours.

This book features chapters on personal healing for your mind, body, and spirit. There is more to you than you most likely realize. You affect so many people. You are worthy.

You are worthy of love.

You are worthy of life.

We all make mistakes. There is not one human being on the face of this planet that has not made mistakes. Join the club.

The solution to all ills within yourself and in the entire world begins with you. You are that important. No matter what your life has brought you thus far, know that you are amazing. You have the ability to right your own ship.

You can also contribute to making this one world we all live on a better place to live.

I am very glad you are here with me on this one planet we all call home. Let’s do our part to heal ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods extending out to the world.

We can do this because WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.

THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE ~ THE HUMAN RACE ~ BEFORE WE CAN HEAL THE PROBLEM OUTSIDE OF US WE HAVE TO HEAL THE INSIDE OF US


To heal the outside of us, we need to heal the inside of us.
To heal the problem outside of us, we need to heal the inside of us.

Why are we shooting each other? Have shootings become a communication skill?  What is stopping us from listening, truly listening to the plight of others? Yes, it is a complex problem, but it is not impossible to solve. The question is, do we really want to solve this problem?

We have the tools to fix this. These tools come from within us. These tools do not cost us anything, except for maybe our pride and our ego. It is critical to let go of the crutch of our justifications, and the iron fist of failure.

It is possible to mend our country, and the world, if only we want to. This is the start of the solution to mend any division between individual people, or groups of people.

Follow the energy. Some people interpret this as, follow the money, or follow the power. But money and power are merely forms of energy. A snowball rolling down a snow laden hill will continue to get bigger until the momentum of energy changes. You and I are the beginning of this change, in understanding the problems we face in our cities.

It begins with you and me, no matter who you are, you matter. No matter how old or young you are, you matter. Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. And yes, all lives matter. But in understanding  that all lives matter, we come to realize that white lives have always mattered. Black lives have not always mattered. No matter if you are police, your lives matter. No matter if you are innocent citizens, your lives matter.

We can be a positive and healing change. How? It begins with our thoughts. Before healing ideas can take hold outside of us, healing ideas must take root inside of us. Before our words can come up with creative and positive solutions, we must heal our thoughts of separation, from each other and from God. Before we can heal our actions, we must heal our words. Why is this important? It is important because you matter.

It is not the other guy’s fault. It is not just a problem for adults. It is not just a problem for our country’s youth. It is not just a problem for black people. It is not just a problem for white people, or any other group of human beings we can target and isolate as different from ourselves, no matter what our race, color, creed, gender, weight, height, hair color, eye color, or any other difference is.

In a world damaged by tunnel vision, warped attitudes, crippled thinking, outrageous actions, fears,  hate-based actions, and the need to be right whether we are right or not;  it is a time to examine ourselves closely to see if our thoughts, words and actions are manifesting the integrity necessary to listen, in order to heal the God-given right to life of all people, especially those most oppressed among us.

There is only one race, the human race.

Namaste