If we got some good news.

Today, I am wondering what would happen if the news at five reported only achievements and success stories.  If the ritual and almost reflexive query, “How are you?” was habitually followed by “I’m great!  I figured out a new way to teach my third graders multiplication, and 97% of the class aced the test” instead of the equally reflexive “Fine,” or worse, a litany of aches and pains and woes and grumbles.

Which is not to say that there are not dire happenings in the world and sometimes in our own lives.  We do need to be aware of inequities and dangers.  Of course, we do.  We won’t ever do anything to stop them if we don’t know about them.

But just for a minute, imagine a world where the media focus was on the advocates and the protectors instead of the instigators and perpetrators.

What if the lead story on the news could be the local Habitat for Humanity group and the house they are putting up for the single mom who lost her home in a fire?  What if it could be a feature on how your kid overcame his stage fright and made it through the piano recital?  What if it could be breaking news of a successful heart surgery instead of Lindsay Lohan’s latest court appearance.

I just wonder.

It does seem to be true that the universe hands you more of whatever it is to which attention is paid.

What if the soup kitchen that fed a hundred people today got the same coverage as the nightclub fire that killed a hundred?

Nobody really knows what would happen, because nobody has really tried it.

I will say that when I decided to start this blog, one of the early decisions was to have Monday Miracles rather than Monday Moans.  It seemed to me important to try to keep a generally positive tone.  I don’t know how well I’ve succeeded, but I do think the Monday Miracles and the Thankful Thursdays and even the Silly Saturdays have altered the energy in my own life a bit

I wonder what a focus on good news could do for yours.