SELF-DESTRUCTION

SELF-DESTRUCTION


All destruction is caused by self, by the choices in action we take, whether it is a nation or individual. We are bombarded with a never ending barrage of bad news. Pick up any newspaper, listen to any news channel and the hammers of negativity begin doing their work on our psyche. Living on the Spiritual Basis is a choice, it is the road less traveled. Having chosen to apply spiritual truth to every area of life, it is curious and somewhat disconcerting how easy it is fall back on old thinking to solve problems and address issues in the same tired manner and repeatedly failed ways on the world stage. History is an invaluable tool that few truly employ. There is nothing in today’s headlines that has not happened before, many times. Nothing. Living on the Spiritual Basis we trust infinite God rather than our finite self. God is either everything or else He is nothing. We rely on prayer, meditation and service to grow spiritually, for in truth there is no other growth; in order to meet calamity with serenity, to solve all of life’s problems, yet somehow on the macro scale of human affairs this becomes secondary, if at all. “IN GOD WE TRUST” or do we?

“The world is not going to the dogs. The human race is not doomed. Civilization is not going to crash. The captain is on the bridge. Humanity is going through a difficult time, but humanity has gone through difficulties many times before in its long history, and has always come through, strengthened and purified.
Do not worry yourself about the universe collapsing. It is not going to collapse, and anyway that question is none of your business. The captain is on the bridge. If the survival of humanity depended upon you or me, it would be a poor lookout for the Great Enterprise, would it not?
The captain is on the bridge. God is still in business. All that you have to do is to realize the Presence of God where trouble seems to be, to do your nearest duty to the very best of your ability; and to keep an even mind until the storm is over.”

When Emmet Fox wrote this in the 1930’s the depression was in full swing, prohibition the law of the land, the heart of America gripped by a “black blizzard” of dust that displaced millions as political storm clouds were gathering in Europe as Hitler rose to power. Economic hardship, war on drugs, global warming, Iran, Iraq, North Korea. Sound familiar? Nothing changes if nothing changes.