In the less than 24 hours since we learned of the U.S. assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, the Twitterverse and my brain has filled with ideas about the “inevitable” retaliation and bad things that could happen from this.  And they could, but what else is possible?  It is a universal law that what you resist persists.  Consciousness is creative, especially when collective.  We are powerful beings.  We have the power to create peace, so why are we using our powerful imaginations to create war by imagining and focussing on the worst?

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson fired her campaign staff on the day that Soleimani was assassinated.  Although I support Bernie Sanders for President, Williamson is the only candidate who openly speaks to the power of our consciousness to create reality.  She knows and can talk about, in a way the others can’t, the danger of speaking of massive escalation as inevitable.

Whatever I put my attention to grows.  That’s got to be one of the reasons she calls for a Department of Peace rather than a department of Defense.  We only need a department of Defense if we are under attack.  And we seem to be a country that decides it is under attack even when we may be the attackers.  

I’m not suggesting we put our heads in the sand and pretend this isn’t happening.  Quite the contrary.  I don’t think it works at all when spiritually conscious people choose to put their hands over the ears and tune out the news of the day.  We have a responsibility as citizens of the world to vote and voting doesn’t just happen once a year or every four years.  We “vote” with our consciousness, our chosen words, the focus of our attention all the time.  Voting in the cosmic democracy is a way of choosing a world that works for everyone.  Don’t you? I do?

Let’s all VOTE for peace today.  If you’re on social media try: 

#StartPeace instead of #EndWar ?

#RespondwithLove instead of #LearntoHateaNewEnemy?

#WhatElseisPossible? instead of #InevitableRetaliation?