I saw in Pres. Obama a heart that bleeds for this decision for anyone whose heart center is open and active feels the pain of this task, yet, speaking with a Heavy Heart, I also heard in that speech the unspoken wish or Intent that he was going to also bring Bin Laden to justice ( the great Prize and Symbol)!  I also heard the great Urgency he feels to bind up all loose nuclear threats and to prevent them from getting into those hands within Afghanistan and Pakistan which might annihilate the world as we know it.  He has not made this this "call to arms" for Oil or for profit based upon a lie but a heartfelt desire to keep safe the people in the world, in the binding up of these nuclear threats to the world by this faction which he knows is still out there plotting to do harm!    That in this way we are Standing up for Peace and that somehow we must go into Hell for a Heavenly cause.

I heard him also say to the Military Industrial Complex Machine that there will be an end date, and that it will not be open-ended, but that the battle for peace might call for other strategic ways to get to this goal -- that giving the benefit of the doubt to his generals -- he will try their way, but only for a time.

As, he spoke about true security from a world without nuclear weapons (his real true goal), he also spoke about the need to unite with the world to accomplish this task because in truth, terror and nuclear weapons is a world problem!  And finally, he called us to the time after 9/11, when we were all united but got deviated from the course, but to return to that Unity of purpose, one more time.... and that if he is lucky, he will bring home the Prize, Bin Ladin, break the back of this threat, and then for the weary and battle scarred-soldiers they can look onward and say, well done -- yet, there's no place like home, there's no place like home!

Let us trust " that there is a goodness in all of life that cannot even be eliminated by thoughts that temporarily cause you to believe that negativity is the underlying reality of human life on earth... " (1)   Let us call on that goodness to illuminate our way forward towards that peace and goodwill and seal the door where evil dwells.

Deepak Chopra words on Pres. Obama's: Call to Arms:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak...

And for those of us who know how to use positive thought or the light, we Must, use our thought forms and/or light of love to radiate peace and love into the world, Daily!  This will do much to uplift the atmosphere in the world and seal the door where evil dwells.  I believe that if peaceful loving people all around the world use their God-given light and energy then soon the Twin Wars initiated by the fall of the Twin Towers will soon come to an end, but we must work, not in a vengeful way but with love and light.  Love heals and unites, fear separates and divides, therefore, let us work with love.  " We often instruct that unity be preserved. Such an Indication is not merely a simple moral teaching--disunity is the most abhorrent dissonance. Nothing strikes space as sharply as dissonance. When people are filled with malicious discord, damaging disruptions in space result immediately. Such people not only harm themselves they also create a spatial karma involving others like them. It is dreadful to battle with such newly-generated chaos."

"People who bring discord are truly creators of chaos and the consequences of their malicious abuse are grievous.  We must work for unity, not by hymns and harps, but by labor and struggle." (2)

(1) Ron Scolastico. Doorway to the Soul
(2) Supermundane I, Agni Yoga

A reporter from a local news station told me there had been a shooting.    A "black male, late teens to early 20's" had been found dead on the sidewalk by Rockhurst University security.   I could see the covered body on the other side of the crime tape.  I was asked if I had heard anything by the officer blocking the street.

It was obviously very unsettling.   Nobody wants a shooting near their home or family.   Nobody wants to imagine that it could happen on their street.  Everyone wants to rationalize that there was some "reason" that it occurred at that place and time.   "Maybe it was drug related."   "Maybe somebody just dumped the body there."   "Must have been a fight, those damn kids are always fighting".  

The truth was much sadder.   It believed to have been a robbery. There was $45 missing from his pockets according to the victim's mother.   The killer took the money but left the college application that the victim was filling out.  The victim went from "black male, late teens to early 20's" to Nelson E. Hopkins, 17, honors student from Alta Vista Charter High School.   He was a musician, poet, student council member, big brother and loving son.   He was just one more victim of the streets.   He was shot walking home at night from the bus stop.  He had been studying at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Library.

I had seen Nelson around the neighborhood.   He was a face on the corner.  You saw him a lot.  Never a problem, always polite....one of those kids you like seeing around.  A familiar,  friendly face.   He once stopped my wife as she left the neighborhood beauty shop to tell her how beautiful her hair looked.   It made her day that day and left her in tears the night she saw his face on TV.

A part of you wants this to be a bigger story than it is.   You want non-stop coverage on the news, police with dogs searching the streets, vigils and arrests.    But it's just one of many such murders that happen in every city in the country.   And so life moves on.

But Nelson's fellow students at Alta Vista refuse to let that happen easily.   They decided to do something positive to remember their friend and fellow student.   They've established the Nelson Hopkins Jr. Scholarship Fund.  If their friend couldn't go to college...someone else could in his memory. 

So, if you want to help remember a tragedy with some little bit of goodness, you can send contributions to THE NELSON HOPKINS JR. SCHOLARSHIP FUND in care of the Mazuma Credit Union, 106 W. 11th Street, Suite 1520, Kansas City, MO 64105.