Always BAD news

Sometimes I spend my Friday afternoons catching up on world news. So much happens throughout the week that it is impossible to know everything important that is happening in every country on Earth.

Today, as I search through the articles the issues that jump out at me are the same ones that always have been a sore spot for me: WAR and DESTRUCTION.

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." ~Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~Abraham Lincoln

< color="#000000">I don't know how to put what I feel into words sometime, surprisingly enough, so I am posting a painting that depicts how I feel about war, the effects on 'mother earth', with a nod to conservative politics who are pro-war and pro-God. In my mind, the two cannot exist together, yet 'we' fight in God's name, and waste prayers on requesting help to victory. Why is it that we cannot PRAY FOR PEACE. To find peace, we have to seek understanding. Understanding can not be found by violence!
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." ~Albert Einstein
"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world..." ~Robert E. Lee

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