Prosperity or Power Play?

As we finish up the week’s final tasks and ponder our weekend activities, the leaders of the G20 are meeting in Pittsburgh, pondering peace and prosperity for all nations.

But can we leave our inner peace up to these leaders? Italy is already flexing its muscles, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staking his power claim. Currently chairman of the Group of Eight, Berlusconi is demanding that the G8 retain its power, while the Brits propose to promote the Group of 20 into the steering committee for the global economy.

The streets of Pittsburgh have been filled with tear gas and broken windows as protesters’ cries are quelled by local police.

In different news, a legal immigrant from Afghanistan was arrested in Denver this week, under allegations that he bought chemicals needed to build a bomb. While many arrests and allegations have been made since Sept. 11, 2001, some investigators are calling his case the most serious in years.

Peace and prosperity or chaos and violence? Only we have the capacity to create our own reality. As Michael Bernard Beckwith notes:

Peace is the quality of the Spirit that is everywhere present. Peace is what you are called to reveal first within your own consciousness and then in your world.