Mea Culpa

Oh, yes, I admit that I can dip speedily into negativity. The news bombarding us is loaded with strife, killings, rivalries, and constant tearing down of everything and everyone. I looked back at my last blog and my recent battles to save our VA and our environment for future generations. Some days I feel the futility and hopelessness.

Then glimmers of hope shine out of the gloom. I read of those who work to making this a better world. I talk with friends who enthusiastically forge on to help others. I watch documentaries on PBS about the guys trying to save the animals from extension due to logging and development in areas sensitive to their habitat.

There is more beauty and humanity in this world. This does not have the instantaneous media coverage as does the sensationalism and glitzy "feel good" that many glom onto on the internet, TV, Twitter, etc. Much of the positive-ness occurring in our world is buried in lengthy literature visited by the patient few.

A thought for today: " "God" is understood as the supreme expression of love. God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God and God in him or her. The Great Commandment instructs us to love God with all our heart, all our mind, all our strength .... and our neighbor as ourselves. This is either utter nonsense -- since loving God with all our energy leaves nothing for the neighbor, or it is the greatest religious insight of all time --since loving the neighbor must simply be loving God, and vice versa."   Larry Goodwin, President of the College of St. Scholastica

Reminder to myself: Spend more time in the company of the hopeful and respectful and make the effort to watch, read and listen to the in-depth stories of the lives of the many who respect human dignity, cherish our world and continue to work to change the social structure and, most importantly, continue to better themselves.