Life Is For Living: GOOD NEWS: Love For Your Fellow Man (Chilean Miners Rescue)

17 Oct 2010

GOOD NEWS: Love For Your Fellow Man (Chilean Miners Rescue)

Shores on the road to hope

Good news does not get any better than the Chilean miners rescue and Cara Barker's article What the Chilean miners can teach us about hope.

Here's a snippet from the article:

Most of those who've rolled up their sleeves for the cause of liberating 33 miners trapped since August 5 in a Copiapó mine have never met those imprisoned below.

They are love in action, laboring in their cause. Their devotion is compelling. Here, there is no "your family" or "my family," but only "our family." Never before have human beings survived being buried alive for such a long time.

Because these awakened human beings have continued to pour their skill sets, hearts and souls into the work, the news is that freedom is imminent. It's an big story of the heroic. But there's a bigger story going on here than meets the eye.

The rescue after 69 days is really all about love for your fellow man and it is a perfect reminder to us of what is really important in our lives. It does not get any better than this people!

Let us celebrate this event every day in some form to keep that light shining bright in our hearts and minds.

In this vein here are Cara Barker's 8 tips - from the article - for coming through on our own during times of collapse: nothing but good news...

Image by locket479 via Flickr

Anything is possible if we let go of fear and refuse to fight paper tigers in the dark.
Faith in what transcends adversity comes by focusing on what is present, and by taking action based on the highest possible outcome.
Our history of doubt need not dictate the present outcome for what's troubling.
Collaboration creates celebration.
Awakening is preceded by time in the darkness.
Treasure lives where we least expect to find it. This is at the heart of the alchemy of human transformation.
Courage defeats catastrophic thinking.
Help is on the way, even when it may be invisible. As Chris Williamson sang, "Open my eyes, that I may see, Spirit of Life, illumine me; Open my eyes, Spirit Divine."

Another excerpt from the article (my favourite part):

The gift of choice is the one thing that we must remember if we are to rekindle hope in our own tight situations, be they abuse, unemployment, poverty, poor health, failing relationships and even loss.

When we find ourselves in the tightest quarters, may we recall, as they have illustrated, that we are not laboratory rats, condemned to react as our reptilian brains might indicate. We have choice.

We can ruminate about the future or waste our energy, time and oxygen fighting paper tigers. We can operate at a lower level of the brain stem. Or we can remember that we are more than that, that we can employ our limbic system and our neocortex in a much more appealing way.