Friday, January 31, 2014

Good news

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In this time when there seems to be so much news about, well, quite frankly, horrible events that are happening in the world today ~ it is easy to get the idea that “the world is going to hell in a hand basket”. That the only things that are happening are those things that make life harder, that are negative, violent, hateful.

When we allow ourselves to go along with that assumption, we may even find ourselves to become more negative. And pretty soon it becomes harder and harder to see the good things in life… Or to disregard to a certain extend the nice, beautiful, good things we may encounter.

Truth be told, when we compare that one nice, bright sunny day in the middle of weeks of dreary Winter weather with news we may see on TV about for instance flooding that is causing hardship on so many people; or a war ~ it seems clear that this sunny day just doesn’t measure up. On the other hand, it is the recognition of these ~ sometimes very small ~ bits and pieces of ‘good news’ that can keep us from spiraling down into despair.

So from that perspective it is important to keep an eye out for ‘good news’.

And suddenly there seems to be a lot more ‘good news’ showing up in the newscasts. Just this last week I saw a news item on a person who has been feeding and helping the poorest people in the area where he lives for the past 40 years; and he is still going strong! And it is driven by his desire to do so, donations, and volunteer labor. It makes me wonder how many lives he has changed over the last 40 years; how many live he has saved…
Another story is about a volunteer organization that raised money to buy their own ambulance because it makes it possible for them to fulfill the last wishes of terminally ill patients…
Or this documentary about this person who used his own money to set up a system of education and apprenticeships for those kids that are ‘least likely to succeed’ ~ and makes it a resounding success. His system works, the companies handing out the apprenticeships are eager for more ~ and most importantly for those that now have been given a chance of a life time where there was none before…

There seems to be a lot of good news being reported on ~ more and more, as it turns out.
And even when we are not directly involved with any of these ~ or other ~ stories, it can help us too as it changes our perspective from a negative into a positive.
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