Americans need to wake up

If you want peace and freedom for you and your children you have got to become more aware of what is happening in your country. If you don't take notice or have any involvement it will be that much worse later.
More and more the government of the United States of America is finding ways to "take care of us" and teaching us that we are not smart enough or capable enough to run our own lives. You may have heard the story about the seagulls who were given fish from the fishing boats all their lives but when the fleet moved to another area the seagulls starved to death. Birds who were completely capable of fishing for themselves had grown up believing they had to rely on others and it killed them.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We are those seagulls if we accept all this welfare stuff from our government. When the government runs out of money we will starve because of it.
The same goes for running our country. If we believe that we aren't smart enough to do it and that we have to take whatever the politicians feed us we'll starve for common sense and good leadership.

Help someone out

There are tons of ways to volunteer and if you can't do that check freecycle.org in your area and see if there is someone who needs something you can donate or help them find. Gives you a good feeling.

Get rid of something

I read an article in Real Simple magazine probably two years ago that talked about getting rid of 50 things and the feeling of freedom and peace it brings to you to unburden yourself.

Try giving away one or two things and see if it works. www.freecylce.org is a great place to find someone who needs something you have but don't use anymore.

It's about time for Spring Cleaning anyway. Let me know how it goes!

Charity equals Peace and Happiness

This is an amazing talk by Arthur Brooks. He's got some great suggestions on how to go about becoming more happy and finding joy and peace through giving more to others.

http://byubnew.byu.edu/talks/Talk.aspx?id=2998

Making The Bed

It's been proven that starting your day by making your bed will create a small sense of peace.

Try it. Let me know if it works.

What ways do you find/create peace in your life?

I want this blog to be about how to have peace in my life and throughout the world. We can hope for peace and pray for peace, but how do we create some?