Barack Obama & the Nobel Peace Prize

A day late & a thousand voices too small, but I'll say it anyway . . .

Yesterday I woke up, looked at the headline - and felt proud. Brarack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

Every now and then we choose the hope and promise - it changes the way we think. If he were to disappear tomorrow, he's already changed the way other nations think about America, America about itself, the nations among themselves.

Someone carped yesterday about "Gandhi never got the Peace Prize," but if you go to Obama's roots - back through Carter, King, Mandela & Kennedy - Gandhi's received that prize a dozen or more times, in all shades of spiritual, practical and political terms.

Inspiration. It can, like the flowing water of a river, move more mountains than a battalion of tanks. I'm hoping that the promise can be more than empty words, but I already believe that the words. the hope that Barack Obama offers, is already being fulfilled in the simple, so difficult way of touching people's better soul.