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                          BUILDING A NEW WORLD

This year of 2002 is giving us an excellent opportunity to consciously rebuild our individual and collective worlds.

We have heard reference to "Building the New Jerusalem and Building the Temple Four Square." These are metaphors for the same building; our own spiritual belief system and the collective consciousness of the planet.

Many minds were catapulted into a new paradigm of belief systems on 9-11. A new worldview is not only possible but imperative. Many have had their mental, emotional and spiritual beliefs shattered. Earthquakes, those powerful mental thoughts of unworthiness, and tidal waves, the emotional battles each of us will face are demanding that we ask and answer of ourselves, "What God do I serve?" Is it the Lord God of the "I AM THAT I AM" or the ego god of the 'I CANNOT-AND NEITHER CAN YOU."

As architects and builders of the new world, The New Jerusalem, let us each hold a vision of peace and plenty for every country of our world and continue to build upon it brick by brick. Those bricks are thoughts. That which we collectively perceive we can achieve. Let's not waste our great God power of imagination, visualization and desire on building walls of separation. Let's accept responsibility for our thoughts, bring balance into our lives, commit to caring and compassion and dedicate ourselves to the building of a new world of peace and prosperity.

Our enemy, whose names are apathy and ignorance, are just mental darkness. Let's come out of that dark closet under the stairway and like Ha" Potter, pick up our magic wands of inner divinity and create a shining new world for all of our family; our family whose name is Humanity.          

                                   - Rev. Betty Tatalajski