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Positive News In The World

Today I came across a beautiful UK newspaper called positive news. It is full of news about all the good things happening in the world. How great is that!

I cried my way through a number of articles. They speak of beautiful people doing beautiful things; people who care enough to want to make a difference. I think I cried because there were many difficult years when I held to belief in the beauty in all of us all. Often it was difficult to see it.

What a different world this would be if we read good news, more than bad.
It really is quite bizarre how we diligently search out and broadcast the worst news we can find.

Positive News About Ourselves

Little wonder then that in our lives we tend to focus on weakness rather than focus on the good things – the positive news – about ourselves.

The other day I asked someone with the illness ME to tell me four things she likes about herself. She struggled to think of one. Yet she is a lovely lady.

Let us focus on the positive news, the good about ourselves, so that we are heartened and encouraged to grow in love.

A Course In Miracles is great at emphasising that, if we only have a little willingness to allow God to decide for us, we cannot fail.

“I have perfect faith in you to do all that you would accomplish.
Nothing will be lacking, and you will make complete and not destroy.”
(T-15.XI.10, A Course In Miracles)

Why Does Christianity Call Itself The Good News?

Christianity calls itself the good news.
What is the positive news, the good news of Christianity?

Please note that this is my own interpretation and not necessarily the meaning or interpretation other Christians would give to the phrase "the good news".

My interpretation of the good news is that Jesus held to love in the face of a world that invited him to hate, and so he rose again.

Circumstances had no victory over Jesus.
Death had no victory over Jesus.

When we allow Jesus into our hearts and minds
...circumstances have no victory over us.
...death has no victory over us.

The good news means we are loved by God. We can let Jesus and the Holy Spirit hold us in this love and allow us to grow in love.

“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 1:6, NIV Bible verse)

What is the good news? - that we are blessed along with faithful Abraham.

For people of faith the positive news, the good news goes beyond needing to find the good things in the world.
Our good news is that God is love and nothing can separate us from this love.
God is our rock. We do not rely on the world to bring us happiness and peace - we do not build out house on the sand of circumstances but on the rock of God's love.

How Positive That The News Is Bad!

We can get brought down. Why is it always bad news we hear on the media?
But think about it. Isn't it positive news that most of the news is bad?!

It won't make the news tonight
...that a priest gets out of bed to pray with a dying person,
...that a vicar sets up a nursery,
... that people of all beliefs and none do voluntary work,
... that people care for their ill relatives and friends
... that people living with chronic illness find a smile for a loved one
...that millions of people go to work and do a great job even though they could get away with doing a bad job

Why not?
Because these things happen EVERY DAY. That is GOOD NEWS.

A Poem About Faith

Is it unrealistic to have faith in love?

Having faith in love does not mean pretending difficult things are not happening. It does mean holding to the belief that there is a loving reality beyond the circumstances.

If someone is living with illness, we can give the help we can give on a physical level whilst holding to something that remains perfect in that person whatever appears to be happening in the body.

For the many years I was living with Severe ME /CFS , the few people who could see me beyond the symptoms of the illness helped me enormously. Even better if they could see the Christ in me.

When I was with them, it was easier to remember the wonderful quote from A Course In Miracles:

“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
(W-rVI, A Course In Miracles)

The spiritual blog today celebrates this newspaper for sharing positive news stories.

Click here to go to the website on Positive News


Pages on a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com relevant to Positive News:

Positive Self Talk
Fear and Faith Definition
Poems about learning by focus on our achievements

PS. Just to be clear, the newspaper Positive News is not about either spirituality or Christianity, though many beautiful people in its pages look like they know the joy of the Lord!

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