Be the peace you want to see in the world.\u00a0 There is so much news, so many opinions, so much suffering, so much anger, so much DIVISION.\u00a0 I find myself wondering if the underlying disease here, is how divided we are. Everywhere I turn there is a new compelling story about which side I should be on. Cue the internal conflict, which for me causes either frustration and then anger or anxiety and then numbness. I have to stop the internal dialogue and ask myself \u201cdo i want to be right or do I want to be loving?\u201d Followed by \u201cwhat do I want to model to my family?\u201d And that answer is always \u201cI want to love.\u201d I can\u2019t change the circumstances but I am responsible for how I respond to them. I want to heal the division. I don\u2019t want to take sides. I want to listen actively to what others are feeling and then ask them to tell me more. And then really listen. To ask myself, what\u00a0 do I have in common with this person , rather than where do we differ. If we can try to find that commonality in each other- as humans and allies, maybe we can begin to take part in healing the underlying disease of division. If today I can take even one small step in the direction of peace \u2013 that\u2019s enough. #butterflyeffectbtc #bethepeaceyouseek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Be the peace you want to see in the world.\u00a0 There is so much news, so many opinions, so much suffering, so much anger, so much DIVISION.\u00a0 I find myself wondering if the underlying disease here, is how divided we are. Everywhere I turn there is a new compelling story about which side I should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}