With the celebration of Memorial Day still vivid in my mind, I recalled visiting the World War II museum last year. The interactive museum sparked many new feelings, thoughts, and raised my appreciation of what our whole world endured.
This informative day in the museum in New Orleans inspired us. A small group of us are presently traveling to Normandy Beach to experience first hand what we saw in a model demonstration in New Orleans.
And be sure to watch for the upcoming posts on the reflections on the trip to Normandy and follow the adventure on FB and Instagram.
During World War II, the world lost 60,000,000 (yes, 60 million) people.
This picture is one of the exhibits at the World War II Museum in New Orleans showing the Imbalance of Power in the world in 1939.
Each figure represents 2 soldiers. The Germans had about 4.7 million men, the Japanese had about 4.6 million, and the U. S. only had 600,000.
I asked our guide how the U.S. ever won the war against such odds. “We came together as a country”, he replied. By 1945 those numbers changed with the U. S. growing to 16 million, with one and all sacrificing, for freedom. The numbers saw the rise with Afro-Americans and women joining in to fight for freedom
Two little words, “Coming together”, carry a powerful message not only in our political life, but also our spiritual life. Conflicts occur not only among countries but within ourselves.
We are spiritual beings having an “earthly life” experience bringing contradictions, splits, and uncertainty. We are torn and divided.
But this division can be transformational.
We need to become undivided, integrated, and centered. This division is an invitation to bring mind, body, and spirit together in harmony. Only in this state will be find peace.
We can be immobilized with indecision and stuck in situations, not knowing to which way to turn. Should I do this or that? Should I agree or disagree? And no matter which decision we make we second- guess ourselves wondering if it was the “right” decision. The overly active mind can cause “Analysis Paralysis”.
We need to move out of our analyzing minds and into our feeling hearts. Follow your “gut fee” and get in touch with your authentic self. If you are challenged in connecting…just jump in and you heart will start beating so quickly that you will KNOW.
