The world is a great thing for everybody.
There are so many things that are good.
My heart melted reading those words from my five-year-old great-niece in a Valentine’s Day card to me, and I can’t say them enough.
The world is a great thing for everybody.
There are so many things that are good.
Rather than think how cute and get on with business as usual, what if we tried to see what my great-niece is seeing despite evidence to the contrary?
When we understand that evidence tends to be self-fulfilling—for better or worse—that idea doesn’t seem so preposterous.
When I bought my little red hatchback, I started seeing them EVERYWHERE though I’d only seen one before getting mine. That wasn’t because of a sudden uptick in red car production, but the focus of my attention.
With my hatchback in my consciousness, I started seeing them everywhere.
The world is a great thing for everybody.
There are so many things that are good.
My future could look scary if I focused on my lack of material assets.
Instead, I choose to use my place of privilege—fine health, not feeling unsafe or stressed about sudden job loss, access to food or housing—to inhabit the “so many things that are good” reality my great-niece is experiencing.
And the inhabiting process starts with telling a new story.
Our words are commands for new worlds.
And God SAID, “Let there be light, and there was light…”
We are inherently creative.
The question is whether we’re creating out of fear—pushing against what offends or scares us—or inspiration by using what we can’t accept to imagine personal and collective worlds we prefer as the first step toward making them.
“There are so many things that are good.”
Consider repeating that often and see what evidence shows up, while being aware that the first evidence of good things might be your improved mood.
This is no small thing—our moods and emotions are infectious, as evidenced by viral rage and fear. Spreading hope, calm or possibly joy is HUGE.
That’s because hope, calm and joy take us out of fear, and feeling less fearful makes more room for us to feel inspired, which makes room for us to create good things that are self-fulfilling evidence of many things that are good.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
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