Tuesday; January 16

In 1974 Chaka Khan and Rufus had a hit with the song, “Tell Me Something Good”. The song had a funky vibe that was punctuated with the phrase, “Tell me something good”. Like many of the songs of my youth, I am pretty certain that the song was not an anthem for moral reform, but the older I get the more I long for someone to “tell me something good”. It is all too common to be bombarded with all the negativity in the world. Not only are we surrounded by troubles and tragedy, we also have to listen to all kinds of people make disparaging statements about others. Quite frankly, I am tired of hearing the bad, tell me something good!

What could happen in our families, our churches, our work places, our schools, our communities and even our nation if we made more of an effort to tell something good? Sure, there will always be tales of heartache, but how would things change if those where the exceptions rather than rule? Interestingly, if we focused on routinely relating the good and saving the dire comments for those times when things really were going wrong, wouldn’t we be more apt to take the problems seriously? We could probably do more good and actually solve more problems by regulating our commentary on the bad.

Let’s focus on talking about the good. It might end up being pleasant music to everyone’s ears!

Think About It!

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