Are We Storm Chasers?

"I am asking that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight." ~Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

The Pursuit of Nature's Fury is the primary reason given by people engaging in Storm Chasing! Most of us experience enough of Nature's Fury without chasing it down. Gordon B Hinkley further counsels us, I have little doubt that many of us are troubled with fears concerning ourselves. We are in a period of stress across the world. There are occasionally hard days for each of us. Do not despair.
Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds. Opportunities will eventually open to you. Do not let the prophets of gloom endanger your possibilities"

From the 1944 hit song, Accentuate the Positive, we are directed further to Eliminate the Negative. Here are the lyrics:
You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark
Man, they said we better, accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between

This song was sung in the style of a sermon, and explains that accentuating the positive is key to happiness.

In the world today "journalists", radio and television commentators, and even high tech companies have difficulty dealing with balanced truth as they focus on the negative and, in many cases, caricature the facts and distort the truth – at least the whole truth. The tragedy is that this spirit of negativism seems to prevail throughout the our society, infecting the atmosphere on university campuses and the workplace. Gordon B. Hinkley goes on to counsel that we need to "accentuate the positive, look a little deeper for the good, still the voices of insult and sarcasm, and more generously compliment virtue and effort. "What I am suggesting and asking is that we turn from the negativism that so permeates our society and look for the remarkable good in the land and times in which we live; that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults; that optimism replace pessimism."

Sadly there will always be Storm Chasers! But, for each of us there IS a better way!

We must cultivate the art of complimenting, of strengthening, of encouraging those around us!