Let go of the past for a better future

 What is going on right now in your life is a result of your past energy. Your present energy is creating your future. You cannot do anything about the past and the present because the energy that created them left you a long time ago. You cannot recall it so there is nothing you can do about it, it's done, move on. The future however is still in your hands. The future is based on the energy you are giving out today, right now. You can still change that energy so that it creates the future you want. If you want a happy future you have to be happy right now. You have to give out the energy of happiness and similar energy will come back to you.

When you are on a journey you do not travel looking backwards, you look where you are going. Life is a journey so you have to focus on where you are going. That is why having goals is important. Goals tell you where you are going. If you do not have goals you are going nowhere.

War and Peace

War is not something noble. It is something we must engage in as a last resort. It is a symbol of our failure to follow Gods Golden Rule to love one another. Similarly the army is not something to be proud of. It is not a noble profession. Fighting other human beings who are also God’s children like you is not heroic. It is sad. It is a tragedy, moreover it is unnecessary. It is not inevitable. It would be unnecessary if we followed God’s will and lived our lives according to the way God wants us to. Wars would not happen if we followed Jesus teachings. If we treated other human beings the same way we would like to be treated we would automatically treat them well. 

One of the greatest men who ever lived, my idol, Peter Tosh gave us the formula for peace. He sang, ‘there will be no peace ‘till men get equal rights and justice’ (Equal Rights/Down Presser Man Live). Equal rights and justice; that is the formula for peace! If every human being has equal rights and is treated justly, then there will no one holding a grievance. No human being will feel the need to fight for their rights or to fight for justice. Peace is not simply the absence of war. It is the absence of injustice. If all is quiet and there are no wars but some human beings live under oppression and suffer injustice then that is not peace. Undergoing military training (referred to in the bible as ‘learning war’) is not a goog thing. It will have no place in the kingdom of God (Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4: 3). So how can we pretend it is now a good thing to be a soldier and that soldiers need our support while they are out at war killing other children of God?