Positive

I agree with the guy who said, “I find Peale (Norman Vincent) appalling, and Paul (of Biblical fame) appealing.”  But, I do like positive thinkers – positive people. One ought always be careful around negative people and never let them influence the way one thinks.

I have been concerned about (and praying for) those families in the Morganza Floodway whose farms and homes are being inundated by the flood waters diverted from the Mississippi in an effort to save the cities down river. How difficult must it be to understand you have been selected by the “Government” (as opposed to God, I suppose) to be flooded.

I was encouraged by one note that I read from Associated Press –

Patricia Desselle, 64, said their neighborhood in Big Bend hadn’t flooded since the last time the Morganza spillway opened in 1973. “You could pick crawfish off the side of the levees,” she recalled. “I’m not lying.”

Now understand, I am not a fan of crawfish (though I have a couple of sons who can eat them by the pounds), but I like her attitude. In the midst of what could be despair, she has found at least one positive.

If all of us lived with Paul’s (of Biblical fame) message – “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” perhaps we would be more positive about the disturbing times in which we live.

I’m going to work on that!