As my journey continues this morning - I find myself thankful to be alive again - prompted to stare at this screen and communicate...
I will try and be brief - normally I keep my blatant christianity off of this page, however, I have encountered several people this last week that are just generally blah...and my heart is sad - sad for people that have built a life of choosing powerlessness. My perspective, the why's behind my life will bleed into this rant...
How we get from 4 year old superman's and wonder woman's to a general state of hazy consciousness is troubling.
Every person fumbling around fueling selfishness, enslaved to their screens, bogged down with a sense of failure...every one of those people is someones son, daughter, sibling, friend...just cruising...living to death...gradually allowing every beat of their heart to move from pulsating life to a gradual drip of life, growing in stale muck...
The most alarming places to me are public transit. You surround yourself with a handful of people to find the an intense almost deafening silence.
Bring a 4 year old on that bus, and you hear an almost ashamed sense of disturbance from mom and dad, as the kid accidentally brings the bus to life...just because he/she is alive!
You know this feeling? This blah...maybe its discouragement, apathy, the idea that things will never change...maybe its you, maybe it's a friend...
try and communicate that feeling to a 3 year old...they will stare at you blindly, then interrupt you by inviting you to 'play'...
If you are spiritual or not, a christian or not, aware of some level of the deity or not - feel free to try Jesus.
Through out His life, He is constantly inviting His disciples, and the people around to plug into God the same way He is. Always pointing people to the why. Not just the why to their individual problems, but the power to address every societal challenge that is leeching life.
For whatever reason, many people that claim to follow Jesus have this idea that God's not really powerful enough, and there is this idea that being a christian is choosing a life of no fun, fumbling through a life of constant temptation with no real power. Let me apologize on their behalf if that is your grid of christianity.
It supposed to look like this -
My role as a Dad, is to teach them a worldview and perspective that looks like God, so that as they come of age they can experience the same thing I am experiencing in my life.
Because of my relationship with God, I believe and have now experienced a life of purpose, where I am built and empowered to destroy strongholds in our culture...like selfishness...ultimately leading to self-absorbed apathy...
Are you living out the 4 y/o superman? If not try Jesus -
If you are a christian - do you expect to win today? Or have you given your choice over to selfishness...following Jesus actually carries some responsibility...
