Believe in the Future, Believe the Future In
My dear late friend Rev. Rory Elder was famous for finding ways to turn words and phrases into memorable sayings that contained great truths.
Earlier today, I spent some time responding to a colleague who sent me an email consisting only of more than 20 dire predictions of worldwide economic doom and collapse the second half of this year. As you can imagine, despite my normally positive and affirmative approach to such topics, I was feeling a bit low. As I sought spiritual guidance, an email crossed by desk with this quotation from one of Rory's radio spots, "Give 'em Heaven."
We are exposed every day, through a variety of different sources, to the message of doomination in the world.
Today I invite you to suspend such thoughts--and be a messenger of illumination. Share your passion and vision for a better world--and share the gift and light you have been given--if it’s a song, sing it; if it’s a vision live it; if it’s hope, share it.
Remember: It’s not enough just to believe in our future, we must believe our future in. Never doubt that a thoughtful, committed consciousness can change the world--it is unquestionably the only thing that ever has.
I am reminded in reading that quotation that miracles happen every day, that nothing is finally fatal (even physical death, by my own experience) and that it takes only a tipping point of properly intentioned minds to bring about stunning and sudden change.
Therefore i hold a clear vision and intention that wisdom and prudence and compassion will ultimately prevail in all this turmoil and that we will be able to look back on it one day and recognize it for the catalyst to badly needed major policy change that was necessary for us to yank ourselves out of the stupor of greed and avarice that have long dominated our culture on far too many levels to be sustainable.
