All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well

Just a tiny little comment on my post from yesterday. Remember the "95% of what we worry about never happens" statistic? Well, I was watching a David Attenborough special Polar Bear: Arctic Warrior. They were showing a polar bear hunting a baby seal who was hidden under the snow. The hunt failed - yea, David!-and they mentioned that only one in twenty of these hunts are successful. That means that the polar bear only kills a baby seal 5% of the time-ha!

What shall I write about today? I don't have a clue! You know that famous shot in Al Gore's special on global warming - the polar bear is on a tiny ice flow, and we're being told how global warming has stranded it? Well, I found out from the Attenborough video that polar bears can EASILY swim 100 miles, so that bear probably wasn't as stranded and forlorn as we were led to believe. People in the US have tender hearts, which are easily stirred to protective instincts. I wish that we were being led in a truth-based fashion. 

I guess my concerns about this probably fall in the 95% that never happens, though. We're also not stupid. They can't fool all of the people all of the time. In thinking that I know what's going on, I'm no less misinformed than the artists who think the ordinary people don't like their art because they are stupid. 

I have to remember that I don't have special knowledge either. As Julian of Norwich said, "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." I want all things to be well. I don't want to worry about the state of the nation, or worry that the US is working their way into persecuting the Church. My program tells me to avoid negative thinking, to keep my eye on my employer (my Higher Power, God), and to try and do His Bidding. It tells me that God-reliance is the posture of strength, not weakness. On the contrary, self-reliance leads only to fear. When I remember these things, I am instantly taken out of the 'fussy' feeling of worrying about the future. I feel free again, and peaceful.