What’s
the Good News?
By Allen Merritt © 2018
I had a wonderful thought this morning. Actually, it
was a question (rhetorical).
The question was: What’s the good news?!
I immediately smiled to myself thinking what a great
contemplation.
I can picture someone approaching a friend and
saying, “Hey, man! What’s the good news?” and then high-fiving it.
It’s another way to say hello, ask what’s up, what’s
going on and, of course, how are you? Moreover, it is a nice way to greet
someone or start a conversation. I also think
it’s a nice way to start off the day. It points us in a positive uplifting
direction. I don’t think anyone doesn’t love to hear good news.
News doesn’t have to be all about shocking
atrocities and horrors. While there are only a handful of outlets that focus on
good news, there are at least a few.
Faith based organizations talk about it. Radio
programs create inspiring broadcast segments to share and print media offer up feature
stories which accentuate the positive.
I decided to go through a stack of old newspapers my
roommate flips through every day to see what I could find. I wanted to see how
many uplifting or positive headlines and advertisements there were or if
anything specific stuck out in a good way. See if any of the following speak to
you about anything good or positive.
- Everything You Love is New Again
- Have you Heard the News? It Will Change
- Good to the Last Drop.
- Fun and (Winter) Games
- In Some Ways, These Three Cities are a Little More Than Special
- Brilliant Experience Lights up Old Signs
- The People you Love Would Love to Know
- Small Household Actions Can Lead to Changes in Society
- Delivering a Message
- The Pic Me Up!
- It’s Break Time
- All Good Magazines go to Heaven
- Cuteness Unleashed
- I Can Make You Smile
- At Home on the Farm
- A Magical Mission
- A Better Way to Teach the Gifted and Everyone Else
- A Meeting of the Minds
- In Puerto Rico, Artists Rebuild and Reach Out
- Because Your Time is Valuable
- Where Dogs Have Their Days and Nights
It’s interesting, but most of what you find in the
papers isn’t inspiring in the slightest, which goes to prove how important it
is to re-channel our energies toward the best of the best and to take notice on
what we see in the way of good and goodness. It makes me wonder about purpose.
Is the purpose of media to only report the bad news, the shake downs, and the
violations? I suppose personal
perspective plays a role on what it is we see and do not see in these headlines.
Sometimes it is good to point out the obvious to make headway toward
improvement of a situation. On that there is no doubt, but to make everything
about pinpointing all that is negative leaves little room for the positive to
appear.
I realize that good news and positive insights may
be subjective, but I think it is safe to say most individuals would declare it
(positivity) as an objective toward healthy living and overall well being. As
such, I searched out some resources supporting the topic of good news. I hope
these are helpful and worth sharing. Feel free to spread the good news. It’s
well worth it.
I found a website titled Our Better World focusing on telling inspirational stories.
Another site hones in on producing “feel good”
television. It’s called GoodnessTv.
It focuses on global consciousness and positivity.
The Good News
Network (GNN) can be accessed for more of the same enlightenment.
The Huffington
Post has an arm highlighting the topic of good news.
Then there is this site (Sunny Skyz) purporting weekly good news reports from all over the
world.
Here are a couple more worth peeking at:
Imagine waking up every morning, retrieving the
paper and reading,
“Extra! Extra! Good News Today!” It certainly makes me want to stop, view, listen and think. It makes me want to get more involved with all things good. I want to engage in good projects with the right people focused on the right reasons for good, positive, happy and healthy vertical living.
“Extra! Extra! Good News Today!” It certainly makes me want to stop, view, listen and think. It makes me want to get more involved with all things good. I want to engage in good projects with the right people focused on the right reasons for good, positive, happy and healthy vertical living.
On that note, spread some good news today. Everyone
could sure use it.
Have a great week living life on a positive note.
Cheers!
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