gloom and doom or making room

Spiritual resource to share: insistence and persistence



Gloom and doom rule the baby boom.....Baby boomers are bummed.....Are boomers gloom and doomers?

Just google "Pew Research and boomers" and you get all kinds of articles with these headlines.  Or go straight to Pew Research and read for yourself: "Baby Boomers Approach 65 - Glumly"

After reading this article, I found myself asking all kinds of other questions, like:

• Who or what is it that we allow to determine our future and our expectations for the future?
• Shakespeare has said that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. So are we making our own gloom and doom by thinking it to be so?
• How can we make room in our hearts for zoom and bloom, instead of doom and gloom?
• Do we wait for good to happen or do we wake up to see and acknowledge it ourselves?

Even the darkest night cannot withstand the light. And the agreement to acknowledge good acts as the light chasing away any gloom.  This is the seed of progress. This is something we can do, day to day, even blink to blink. We can take responsibility for our own thinking and align it with God, good. We can bring light to our thinking.

Hopi Elders have said "Now is the time, and we are the ones we have been waiting for." Christ Jesus has said "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

Both ideas leave me with the feeling of urgency, potency and potential. Now is the time!

Some of you may remember that old phrase: "Question authority." Let's question the authority of these predictions. Let’s challenge these assumptions with an understanding of God. How deep is our understanding of God, Love? How much room have we made in our hearts to accept that God is eternal, omnipotent?

In Science and Health, it says “The world must grow to the spiritual understanding of prayer.”


Prayer is what aligns our thought to what has divine authority. It is the highest authority there is. “'God is Love.' More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go.”


God is the foundation of being and there is no other power. “God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all?”

If God is omnipotent, than evil (resentment, anger, fear, doubt, ad nauseum)  cannot have any power whatsoever. Nil. Nada. Zip. God, good, is the only power, is all the power that is.

Let’s question the authority that says we are sick, weak, vulnerable, unemployable, unlovable and incapable of determining our own course. Let’s answer it with the divine authority of God - in healing discords, healing the sick, affirming our strengths, partnering ourselves with Love, and affirming our ability to listen to our loving Father-Mother God to lead us in the paths that will glorify Him -- glorify Life, Truth and Love.

Let's make room for progress, innovative solutions, patient and persistent prayer. Day by day, blink by blink, we can see 2011 bloom into surprising possibilities for good.

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