by Vicki Phipps

Created on: June 03, 2010

If you want to make the world a better place, just motivate hope and inspire faith. Think through a positive view. That’s what men like Martin Luther King and women like Mother Theresa did when they lived. They simply knew that God created heaven, earth and the universe to work for our behalf. To help us figure it out, He gave us some tools and a few universal rules, along with a will that’s free to choose what we think, say and do.

* Look through a positive view.

It doesn’t take a preacher, a leader or a saint to motivate hope and inspire faith. The world can improve because of you, but it all depends on your attitude. This is true, because you see, we all come from one root, so what you choose to think, say and do has a huge impact on me. In time, those thoughts, feelings and beliefs multiply to create either hope and faith or fear based hate among us.

* Remember this: What we resist will persist.

There’s nothing that can create resistance, rebellion, strife and fights faster than the need for change. We feel safe in the comfort zone of the status quo, so just the mention of change makes us afraid if not enraged. it’s human nature to hate what makes us afraid, but it’s useless to act as if being mad could stop the need for change. When we resist the need for change, we unintentionally create the very thing that makes us afraid.

More often than not, what makes us afraid is based on ignorance. Fear revolves around false information, misinterpretations and misguided lies we hide behind to protect us from nothing but the monsters in our minds. That’s why it took decades to pass the Civil Rights Act after the emancipation of slaves, so when the time for change arrives, open your eyes and mind so you can see the truth. Besides, negative thinking always does more harm than good and positive thoughts lead to an endless list of positive possibilities.

* Be for more than you’re against.

Those who make the world a better place don’t resist change by being anti-this and anti-that. Like Mother Theresa, they use a positive attitude to communicate through a view of hope and faith which is always for what they believe will benefit the most. They know that with hope and faith, God will provide the amazing grace it takes to feed the hungry, provide for the poor or educate the illiterate. They don’t become enraged by a raise in tax because they don’t fear lack. Faithfully, they believe that God provides

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