“Journalists are people who take in other people’s washing and then sell it,” says the Australian writing team Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw.

How true is that, you only need to listen to the news. Also listen to your friends. I did that just now in town and the news was bad.

But yesterday in the evening at 7 pm I went to a meeting at the Virtue Christian Centre here in Kaitaia and listened to Marilyn Skinner, the co-founder of Watoto Childcare Ministries in Uganda an her focus was on good News.

I remember her saying that we hear so much bad news about Africa, but she says that Africa is a beautiful country. I mentioned already that her focus was on good news, on good happenings, and at one stage in her talk she asked if we were ready for more good news, good happening, and she told as more good happenings.

Of course, we are always ready to hear more good news, but who wants to hear more bad news?

Today I am coming across the quote by Confucius:

“The more man meditates on good thoughts, the better will be this world and the world at large.”

There is no better place to find good thoughts than in the Bible. That’s why the

Matthew 6:33

Scripture says, the man who delights in the Bible and who meditates on the Bible day and night is blessed. Please read that in the Old Testament in Psalm one.

Do you want to be  prosperous? Do you want to be successful? Meditate on the Book of the law day and night. Please read that also in the Old Testament in the book of Joshua chapter one at the beginning.

It was only yesterday that I picked up the  book “HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE” by Francis A. Schaeffer. On the back cover of his book Francis A. Schaeffer says:

“I believe people are as they think. The choices we make in the next decade will mold irrevocably the direction of our culture … and the lives of our children.”