We live with a continuous barrage of negativity. Read any
newspaper, watch any news channel or surf the internet 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. History is an invaluable tool that
few truly employ. There is nothing in today’s headlines that has not
happened before, nothing.
“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 in a man made
“black blizzard” of dust that bankrupted and displaced millions, the
storm clouds of war gathering in Europe as Hitler rose to power.
Economic hardship, unemployment, war on drugs, environmental disasters, Iran,
Iraq, North Korea, bickering politicians, same stories only the names and dates have changed. Politicians
and leaders, both religious and secular, have been
applying the same answers and solutions to mankind’s struggles for
thousands of years, with the same results transcending generations.
Unfortunately each succeeding generation fails to profit from the
lessons learned by their predecessors and proceeds to travel down the
same failed paths, leading inevitably to more pain and suffering.
Nothing changes
if nothing changes, but
when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.
Living on the Spiritual Basis we trust infinite God rather than our
finite self or the world for salvation, for if we are ever to truly walk
a different path as a people, the change must begin within each of us. So once again, our mantra needs to be:
Let there be peace, and let it begin with me.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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