Peace

I sat down at the computer all set to write a post.

I started listening to the Rachel Maddow Show on the laptop and looked over to see these words on the screen:  "We cannot rule out peaceful solutions to the world's problems."  President Obama spoke those words today in a speech.

My heart swells with gratitude.

I am grateful that we currently have a President, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and other high level government officials who are finding ways to work WITH world leaders to address serious, complicated, long-term problems where the answers are not simple or easy.  It takes vision,  effort, patience, and compromise.    

We are all in this together.  We all have a stake in finding ways to live alongside each other.