The sensational news around Australia this morning, especially in Beaconsfield Tasmania, is that of the rescue of the trapped miners.

After 2 weeks trapped almost 1km underground, they emerged early this morning, almost totally unscathed. Amidst the jubilation, there were moments of sadness as well, when everyone reminded themselves that one man did perish, when the mine first collapsed 2 weeks ago, on Anzac Day.

It was in this context that one of the rescuers interviewed on radio this morning mouthed these very wise words – there is always good news and bad news.

Yes, that seems like such a simple lesson in life yet we allow bad handling and all sorts of bad permutations between these two bag fulls of truth, to make our lives miserable. We either live to make every moment a good news moment or wallow badly in bad news. We either let sure-to-arrive bad news to sour good news presently at hand, or let present good news go to our head. If only we master the art of balancing our approaches to the fact that there will always be good news as well as bad, we’d be half way back to Eden. I think.