  I feel even better about how I spent my night tonight after hearing the Dalai Lama recommended in an address today that everyone find a religion and worship. A similar sentiment sent us back to church, after a considerable hiatus. We considered over and over whether we could be part of a religion that is currently the motivating factor for much hatred, violence, and killing around the world on behalf of our country.
But faith, however misused it can be, is a necessary staple for living in our world. I have wrestled with the many incarnations of Christianity, only to come up with few answers. Actually, only one answer: love. The only focus any church today should have is the very focus they seem to abdicate in the stead of judgment.
What I’ve come to is the resolution that George Bush and Pat Robertson have as little to do with my religion as terrorists have to do with the Muslim religion worshiped down the street. I’ve come to the solid awareness that precisely because these usurpers of the good and pure that faith is are in power, I need to believe. I think this is what the Dalai Lama intended with his words today as well. Namaste! 
