The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling!

         We are constantly bombarded with messages of doom and gloom. Right this minute a program is running on at least one if not multiple cable channels dealing with mankind’s demise at the hands of: super volcanoes, global warming, nuclear winter, asteroid or comet strikes, EMP blasts, any of a variety of pathogens from plague to flu (naturally occurring or man-made), the Earth’s magnetic field flipping, galactic alignment and of course the Mack daddy: Nostradamus, the Mayan’s (or is it the Aztecs, no no, it’s the Mayan’s) and others predicting the world will end on 12-21-2012 (thinking Feng Shui, wouldn‘t 12-21-2112 work better?).


       If you knew for certain that any of these calamities were about to happen, would it fundamentally change your way of living? If we answer yes, then we have missed the point of Living on the Spiritual Basis. To be clear: of course jobs and other secular pursuits would fall to irrelevance and our focus would naturally turn to the people and things that truly matter if the end of days was truly upon us, but what of our behavior, the way we live? Years ago a clean and sober friend commented in the most casual of ways that if something like this happened they would get a hold of the best booze and drugs they could lay their hands on and party like it was the end of the world, since it was. We all have a physical expiration date, the day we transcend the flesh and somersault into eternity, the only difference here being we would know the time, nothing else fundamentally changed.

     So, do we walk the way we talk? If we would cast aside the path we are on if circumstances changed, then we are not Living on the Spiritual Basis. So the good news is that if we would change our behavior if we knew our expiration date, we now know there is work to do, so we get down to the causes and conditions, with God’s help, and embrace Living on the Spiritual Basis in truth, stepping on to the road of happy destiny, leaving all other paths behind. Oh, and quit watching those programs.