Dear friends and family,

 

I have E-mailed this to a number of people.  I thought you might be interested.  My daughter is 4.5 years old.

 

My daughter Aine and I were walking in the woods today playing a game. She was pretending that there were monsters in the forest and that they were coming to eat us.  We had to be vigilant.  We had to defend ourselves. I asked her "What is the plan? What are we going to do if we see one of the monsters?" She replied, "Feed them."

 

"Feed them?" I said.

 

"Yes," she said. "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."

 

I think she has the answer there.  Imagine if President Bush took that $40 billion that Congress gave him and used it to feed people.  Heck, take $20 billion to fix up US security and clean up New York and use the other half to feed people.  And not just feed them with food.

 

What if we decided that people's spirits needing feeding too?  What if we chose to take $1 billion and build the biggest, most beautiful mosque in the world, right in the heart of Kabul.  And what if we gave it as a gift, no quid pro quo, as a place for people to feed their spirits?
What would the reaction be?  What do we want the reaction to be? 

 

Take that $40 billion dollars and spend it in every neighborhood in the world. Put the world to work growing food, healing people, restoring land and water, building communities, creating the thin fibbers of connection between peoples, families, communities, cities, nations...

 

"If we feed them they won't want to eat us."  Can you think of a better form of security?

 

Love to all,

Chris