After Twenty Years of War, What If?

After 20 years of military intervention in Afghanistan we go home.

What if we had never sent our military into a no win situation and tried something like diplomacy, aid, and international cooperation?

I wonder if after 20 years of diplomacy and international cooperation the result would have been better? Who knows. And if not, what if we left with things as they are today, what would the down side be compared to 20 years of war? No casualties? Less dollars wasted?

Maybe non-military intervention could have worked better, but we may never know because the military industrial complex can't make a profit on peaceful solutions.

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God" ~Jesus

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 08-01-2021 - Woodstock Edition

 

Rock Mass Woodstock Edition

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

Rock Mass for Sunday August 1, 2021

Woodstock Edition

“It was about spirituality, about love,

about sharing, about helping each other,

living in peace and harmony.”

 ~Richie Havens, the opening performer at Woodstock 1969

In August 1969 the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, NY with over half a million people in attendance. In the midst of all the self indulgent sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll the Gospel could be found at Woodstock.

Hippie Sunday School Bus at Woodstock, August 1969

Nun flashing Peace Sign at Woodstock, August 1969

"Well, I came upon a child of God he was walking along the road..."

"I had a dream last night, what a lovely dream it was, I dreamed we all were alright..."

"I got a telephone in my bosom and I can call him up from heart..."

"There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area." Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney)

"God bless you"

"Oh happy day, When Jesus washed, He washed my sins away"

"...Any day now, any day now I shall be released"

"...Following you I climb the mountains I get excitement at your feet"

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound..."

“The time has come for America to help the whole world with spirituality also”

"God loves America" Hippie School Bus at Woodstock, August 1969

Here are some of my other Woodstock related posts:

The Gospel According To Woodstock - The Golden Rule

The Gospel According To Woodstock - You Did It Unto Me

The Gospel According To Woodstock - Blessed Are The Peacemakers

The Gospel According To Woodstock - What God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder

The Gospel According To Woodstock - Amazing Grace 

The Gospel According To Woodstock - We Are Stardust 

 

Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud) 

(Originally posted 08-05-2018, revised 08-04-2019)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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