Global Caring Ethics

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suicide, until he joined a club of legless people. The world showed a friendly face once more! Lonely people who have lost a loved one are very inclined to be depressed and feel unwanted. The secret is to become involved in your local community, perhaps joining clubs, or groups doing voluntary work. There is little time to feel sorry for oneself if one is involved with others, supporting needy causes. There is a further remedy for depression which involves powers of the spirit, when desperation has been reached. It involves praying earnestly for help and if you are a just cause, it will arrive in some form within a few days or earlier. You see there is a Spiritual Help Line into which you can tap for assistance and if you are religious, pray through your faith. Christians have an advantage, in that the PS concept is built into many of the teachings of their religion, and divine help can be drawn in more effectively. But make no mistake, when people are desperate for help, and it is deserving, help will surely arrive in some form, perhaps in unexplained ways, but come it will. The more faith you have in the power of the benign Positive Spirit, the more effective is the remedy. The PS philosophy seeks to cultivate universally this divine power to help the frail, the needy, and yes, the depressed!

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