Nugget #109 - Positive energy: Sound Principal

So what was the sound principal Mother Teresa was acting on? 

But first, our universe (both spiritual and physical) was created with and sustained byboth positive and negative forces.  In fact our TNK speaks of light and darkness throughout the text.  We find darkness a time of fear, dread, anxiety, instability, coldness, and a whole host of other negative things.  While light gives us clear vision, hope, warmth, security, and other positive things.  Many examples can be found in the Psalms alone dealing with light and darkness.

Our thoughts create negative and positive energies.   Our emotions create negative and positive energies.  Our physical universe is founded on negative and positive energies.  Everything in our physical universe has been and is the result of electro-magnetism.  Creation cannot escape it.

Creation was created with these polar opposites.  In the grand scheme of things the Creator is a positive force.  Meaning the negative cannot overwhelm the positive force and so in total creation is founded on the positive.

Nugget #108 Positive energy: Mother Teresa

Recently I found an interesting story about Mother Teresa that fell into the same idea of positive energy (in terms of positive speech). There was an Anti-War group that asked Mother Teresa to attend. Her response was interesting. She completely and emphatically refused, to the astonishment of the organizers of the Anti-War group. They were totally confused by her words and reaction. 

Let’s put ourselves in the Anti-War group’s shoes. They are a group of people tired of war and the loss of lives, which most of the times is needless. Mother Teresa seemed to be a perfect person to bolster their efforts and give them legitimacy in the eyes of many. Mother Teresa has seen the results first hand of war. What a great keynote attendant and speaker! Then she flat out refuses. 

What was her objection? It was because they were “Anti-War” protesters not “Pro-Peace” protesters. At first glance this seems more like semantics and worse yet nitpicky. But there was a sound principal employed that was also echoed in the Rabbi’s mother-in-law’s home.