Don't Worry; Be Happy

            Just because I say the Messiah is coming soon doesn’t make me a prophet.  I could simply say, “Look around you!  The signs are EVERYWHERE!  Listen to the news.  Read the home pages of the various news outlets!  There just isn’t much good news!”  If you want good news, go to Youtube and watch videos of kittens playing the piano.  That’s fun!  But the bad news is everywhere.  Since my heart attack last December, I have been going to the gym to work out an hour a day five days a week. I was in the dressing room overhearing a couple of the men talk and one said to the other, “I don’t listen to the news or read the newspaper.  I just listen to my music and go to work and do my job.”  And I thought to myself, this is my advice to EVERYONE!  Do those who live in LA need to know about the heat wave in the East and the loss of power to so many customers who are sweltering because they don’t have air conditioning in 100 + degree heat?  No.  Don’t listen to the news.  You know people are being killed in wars.

            I used to tell my wife that I wanted to watch the local news on TV.  She used to say, “I can tell you the news.  There will be a stabbing; a few murders, maybe a suicide.  Then there will be the car accidents where someone more than likely was killed.”  Now she watches the news and I just read about it on my home pages of my news outlets.  I can pick and choose which news articles interest me.  But you know what?  The guy in the locker room who said that he doesn’t listen to, or read the news is smart.  Don’t worry; be happy.  Really.  This is the best advice I can give to anyone.  Enjoy life and don’t worry about the news.  It won’t be good and it won’t be pretty.  Watching kittens play the piano is much more fun than listening to or watching the news.  My good news for most anyone is that about only 1% or even less of the world HAS to worry about the Messiah coming.  Really.  That is about it.  That is my guess as to about how many people have taken a human life.  For me to say that the Messiah is coming is good news for 99% of us.  So, why should I even bother spreading the Good News?  I think it’s a valid question.  It’s Good News for just about all of us because I am saying, “Don’t worry; be happy.”  Bobby McFerrin had it right.  Just whistle your tune and pretend that ALL is right with the world.  I have a 99% at least, of being right.  99% of us, at least, have nothing to worry about when the Messiah comes.  So my advice is, “Don’t worry; be happy.”  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute