TwitterJan 11 2011
The Beetles Sang about Revolution, I Want to Start One . . . Within Me
“You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world”
-The Beetles
The Beetles sang about starting a revolution to change the world in their song Revolution. Once upon its day I learned to really like that song and its dum ditty, dum ditty beat but today I view revolution for world change through a different lense. Back in the day I was all about world peace and radical liberal thinking, but I had no clue how to access that possibility and I didn’t give it any thought either. I guess I assumed the world would start talking about it and we’d all jump on board because everyone would see the absolute need to stop the killing and the evil that lurked through every crack around the world. But I had no plan. I didn’t really know anyone who did.
Today I see the near lunacy of that approach. I realize that if there is to be world peace it must begin in me and within each individual on the planet. As Ghandi said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” If I can’t even get along with those in my own family how on this earth am I to do it with others down the street let alone those that are around the world??
World peace begins within, one person at a time.
As I mentioned in my last blog I am all about changing the world that is within me; peace and love are my focus for this year. To quell my anger that can all too easily ooze out onto others. This is the year that Theresa/me starts a revolution within herself/me, the year she lays her “guns” down and waves the white flag of surrender. Surrender to peace and love. Surrender to the words of Christ that says to have peace with all men, to have it beyond all understanding, and to love one another always. Surrender to the love and peace that are already within me.
When I was created, when we were all created, I/we were instilled with love and peace from the Creator of our life and flesh. Throughout every cell and corpuscle there already exists these two qualities, however time and suffering have caused me/us to shovel mountains of suffocating dirt on top of them and create a block within that stifles love and peace. So my plan is to get in touch with the anger. To shovel till the blade scraps love and peace and I can loosen and lift it out from the grave it has been buried in so it can blossom and release its fragrance for the world to enjoy.
When Christ suggested that we love one another He didn’t mean when I felt like it, He meant always, even when someone is ticking me off. LOL.
It is now time to look past my ticked and what they‘re doing and to the underlying reason for my anger which lies within me and completely outside of what they are doing. No one can make me angry, I choose anger in response to some issue that I have. Whatever they are doing is simply pushing a well worn button somewhere within me, and when that occurs I can do one of two things, get angry or allow it to give me the opportunity to discover one of my hidden issues and heal it. Transform the button/anger into something beautiful like love and peace.
This will be my year and I have a plan. 8-) 
