Bad News Is Not The Norm

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An editorial lead caught my attention recently: “Bad news is NOT the norm”. The writer explains that newspapers tend to report on things which are out of the ordinary. In other words, a supermarket getting robbed is more unusual than a supermarket not getting robbed. So when people continually read bad news, they may think that it is happening everywhere, whereas it is actually abnormal, rather than a regular occurrence. We hear of terrible things happening around the globe, including closer to home. Yet every day wonderful things are happening; they are simply not reportable because they are not unusual. This writer is the editor for a feature called Points of Progress. She tells how progress in one place may not be progress in another. Progress is contextual. And it doesn’t travel in a straight line. It may be three steps forward, two back. But overall, the progress is happening. At times, we may think that evil actions are overcoming goodness, but that is when it’s important for us to focus on the loving, caring actions of those around us. We must love as passionately as some hate. What we put our attention upon, grows.

“The first step toward freedom involves a sorting out of the false from the true. This is a process of separation in the constructive sense, and reflects the true meaning of the Apocalypse. Everyone will ultimately look upon his own creations and choose to preserve only what is good, just as God Himself looked upon what He had created and knew that it was good. At this point, the mind can begin to look with love on its own creations because of their worthiness. At the same time the mind will inevitably disown its miscreations which, without belief, will no longer exist.”
A Course in Miracles T-2.VIII.4:1-5

The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul. These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 269:13-20