I heard the (good) news today, oh boy...
Ask someone about The Bible and the responses will range from passionate praise to cynical scorn.
Where people aim their attention can say a lot about them. Where our focus goes, our energy flows. This, I believe, is a core cause of our present plight.
Think about how people react to our current situation as a global society. Some identify opportunities. Far too many choose to only see examples of how awful humans are and have always been (except themselves, I assume).
I’ll never understand the purpose of concentrating solely on the negative. It’s as if some folks are happiest when they can arrogantly play the role of fatalistic opposition.
They identify so strongly with being a battle-scarred nihilist that they cannot allow themselves to notice the myriad miracles that happen every day. Doing so, they fear, would get them judged as naive. Horrors!
The Parasite Class™ loves this trend. When good people are too bitter — and too invested in their persecuted, on-the-losing-side identities — to fight back, wickedness can gain the upper hand.
Until more of us confront and transmute our shadows, the balance of power will remain skewed toward evil.
In the meantime, do your best to connect with anyone who is unafraid to be deemed gullible just because they see positive possibilities all around them.
Preach it brother !! ~~~What a refreshing reminder, just out of Easter, that though we know we fight against principalities and powers, much of the timing of the victories~~~and they are coming! are known to and owned by God. A past book “This Present Darkness,” by Frank Peretti, has a chapter in it describing the evil spirits hanging off the ceiling above a church leadership meeting. They were hissing evilly, how he could imagine such reality?!! ~~turns my stomach even years later. I’ve never recovered from that visual description, and know that without God’s protection they try to intervene around me, in my present life. Continue to pray coverage around your children, their little minds and friends, and nighttime fears.
A thousand times, yes.
I had a stern talk with myself at the tail end of 2022. I decided that however wise and cynical and correct I might be (haha!), I needed to focus on joy.
A friend later told someone...in front of me...that I had been a real Eeyore last year.
I have chosen not to continue in that vein. Lots has happened so far this year, but I am focussing on: my husband being employed. Our grandbaby's arrival this summer. My many good and interesting friends. My favourite rebels. Learning to chant...
And I do enjoy hanging out here!