I woke up this morning, another grey, snowy day. Cold the wind blew strong. What can warm your bones better than a cup of coffee? A dose of hope! There it is more people pulling together to help the victims of the earthquake. People needing and wanting help together! Yes there are absolute worthless people among them stealing orphans for the adaption market and those looting, stealing from really themselves but all in all help is so appreciated. I saw Heather Mills talking about physicians for peace. Physicians using second hand crutches and limbs to get as many people mobile. Bravo Heather. Bravo all those on the ground, hands on working but thanks to all those who donate. We, all the world is actively fighting fear. This fear is one we can conquer! So yes the day is grey but the sun is shining.

Just when you have had all you can take from terroist activity like the Ford Hood shooter or the Christmas Day bomber, an older form of terror strikes; earthquake in Haiti. Thousands of people buried under collapsed buidings, chaos, pain and death. The USA sends in more troops than the UN. Help is mobilized from all sides; thank you Larry King and Co for your outstanding work. American Haitians show their concern and willingness to help. Europe is watching and responding to this American out pour of help, in turn with aide . It is wonderful to have a fear that can be conquered. It’s what we need, renewed energy, a renewed conviction that we can make a difference. Let’s not let fear of any kind paralyse Americans, paralyse the world.

Screening before entering an airplane.

The Christmas Day bomb attempt has left most of the western world frustrated. How can terrorists be stopped? They are everywhere. In Pakistan blowing up just about everyone and everything; hotels to playing fields, diplomats to children. Threats now coming out of Yemen, more terrorists,  Nigeria, a young man confused maybe, but certainly looking for a cause greater than himself, more important than just “it’s all about me” believing in a God that will take revenge on all the unbelievers. These are powerful thoughts, thoughts that stir the hearts and minds of many, many men, women and children across country borders, across oceans. The western world our leaders refuse to see the bigger picture.  You can’t prevent an ideology from spreading unless you can offer something better. Hope for a better safer life here on earth, a life where children can learn and flourish, a world where God is not a vengeful God, where tolerance for different religions can exist. Instead new scanners are created to check for weapons. Scanners that do what to our bodies over the long run? Frustration prevails, we want safety. A scanner is just a tool against a symptom the terrorist, like a hooligan at a game who frightens and disrupts, like demonstrators who only want to disrupt a peaceful march, they are not the cause but a symptom.

Scanners will do what, achieve what when poverty, desperate hunger, hopelessness is eased by only one thought: martyr, die for a greater cause, for a God. Many wars have been fought in the name of God. Can airplane scanners ease suffering? Whose?

Think about it: Who wags the dog?