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Not Frightened by the News, Part 1 (TMF:2459)

Thursday, October 10, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Frightened by the News, Part 1 (TMF:2459) - Daniel Litton
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       With so much bad news in our world, wherever it is coming from, there can be the easy temptation to become downtrodden by it. There can be that temptation to think that really the world is a messed up place, and that everything is going down the tubes. Certainly, messed up things happen. There’s no doubt about that. We need to remember, however, that the news we hear is generally the worst of what has happened, I mean, that’s why it has made the headlines. Or, it involves big names or big organizations. With that in mind, we need to remember that for just as much bad news as there may be, there is much, much more in the world that didn’t go wrong, but things that have gone normal and right. You see, when we are focused on what has gone wrong and what could have gone better, we are only zeroing in on those things. What we often fail to consider in our minds is all the things that are going neutral and right. I mean, think about it. For the bad news that there is, there is probably at least a hundred times as many neutral and good things that have happened. The vast majority of the time, things go how there are supposed to go.