Sep 24, 2008

A way to go forward

Michael Todd wrote, “I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.”

That’s good to remember today. Many people who were kids during the depression in this country say they never knew they were poor. Everyone in the family worked and pooled their meager earnings, but the parents didn’t complain and the kids grew up happy. Only later did they realize they had been “poor.”

I’m grateful for the leadership in the US government today regarding the troubled financial market. From what I have read, had there been strong government leadership eight decades ago, the depression could have been averted.

There is a law of intelligence at work, a law of infinite economy that overrides all else. Mankind, with all our bickering and quibbling and even good intentions, cannot delay a right idea at the right time. The spiritual power that provides the solution to a human dilemma carries that solution through. It finds willing hearts and uses them for universal good, perhaps including tweaking and editing the present proposal.

Here’s a profound statement that rings true when we throw the weight of our own thinking and actions on the side of good only:

Evil has neither place nor power
in the human or the divine economy.
Mary Baker Eddy

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