The Green Platform, the Positive Force for Change

by Fr Shay Cullen

Preda Girls Home

A friend of mine wrote a dedication to his latest publication, a book titled Living the Green Platform. In the dedication, he said, ‘Continue to find joy in your life and bring joy to others. You are truly Good News for the suffering poor.’

He is one of the most positive and affirming persons I have ever met. And it is from this belief in the goodness that is in everyone and the capacity of everyone to be positive, self- affirming and affirming of others that he has developed a basic philosophy of positive living which he names ‘The Green Platform.’

This is taking a dedicated, positive view of life even amid hardship, loss and setbacks in life as opposed to taking a negative self-defeating position. The contrast he makes is with the opposite, the negative ‘Red Platform’ where many people unfortunately stand. That is an attitude to life we are challenged to leave and transfer to the positive ‘Green Platform.’

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