My home state of Wyoming is a beautiful place blessed with majestic peaceful mountains and scenic historic sites, one would not stop to think that conflict exists in our history and in our future...in our now.
On the warning signs, mountain trail conflicts with bears, mountain lions and humans are visible. (Lucy our puppy and I encountered a mountain lion on our daily hiking trail just yesterday.) In hospitals, churches, schools, rural towns and cities, coal mines, coal bed methane fields, oil rig, conflict is unavoidable! Why would we want to observe conflict in such a spiritual setting? Because conflict is essential to our well being and that of our place on this earth.
Conflict is a building block to significant change in any portion of our lives. If we were conflict-free we couldn't be as wise as we are now. Understanding it's value in our lives is part of the wisdom of aging. How would we discern the difference between a good life and a better one? Would we settle for less if we didn't know conflict? How would we know we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps if we didn't know conflict? Sue Sharp, Mediator
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Hey, thought the least I could do was to drop a line. Did you have a wonderful weekend with Orville. Mine was pretty quiet - brother apparently decided to stay home, course he didn't call - lake was just crazy looked and sounded like a race track, but our neighborhood did not have any of the 4th of July crazies. Talk with you later, xoxoxo p
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