surveying the items i reposted left me somewhat distressed
is it just that i am drawn to the 'bad' stuff ?
there are 3 items
sick
we are all very very sick people in a badly broken world that lies well outside the intention of the person that created it
and we are lost
we don't know where we are or where we're going
a couple things stand out too me
- we care little for the other humans that inhabit this planet and that will inhabit this planet; the main reason $$$$, in particular, US$; the other reason being religion; and far too often the two are connected at the navel
- we refuse to admit humans outside-the-box, treating the mentally ill, the refugee, the homeless, the poor, the disabled, the 'other' religious as inferior and deserving of punishment somehow
the violence against our fellowhuman and the creatures that populate our world is deplorable, and well beneath any claim to be 'human'
we are sick
.... . .
once upon a time a god entered our world, became a human, lived here and suffered at the will and hands of the very ones he created, in the very world he created, while trying to show us what life should be
his was a broken end, his body broken for us, in an attempt to reboot our think, reset our worldview
that man sits today, waiting, watching, working along with those of us that choose to follow his lead, to undo some of the mess, bring healing and hope and rainbow to whatever town or city we live and move around in
looking to us to be the changeup
looking to us
awesome thought
staggering, really
Jesus looking to us to be the change Godward ?
how can that be ?
it is
he is
we are the hope
simply put, until and unless we get off our religious butts and live-out the religion we say we subscribe to, God will do little
for God has, for some reason, determined that he will work through us
he will use the weak, the despised, the rejects, the 'nothings' to change the world
i am weak despised reject nothing
i want to be used in whatever way he sees fit
i want to do it out of my nothingness for his glory
for the love he wants from me
the love he wants for this world
for my neighbourhood
for the least and the greatest in my purview
they are my fellowhuman friends, the ones i am to love
and until i open myself to that and do the love he asks of me
i am a nothing of a different sort, useless
i remember well the terminology used in the opening chapters of Genesis during the creation narrative
i remember God saying " let us make human in our image, like us " ..
do we get that ?
if we do, then we begin to see God in the faces and eyes of those we see
even the least of these
even the mentally ill
the addicted
the poor and homeless
the violent
the hateful
the murderer
.. .
mine is to be open to every person i meet, merciful and unjudging in my approach, loving always
loving always
if God could allow his human body to be broken, his blood spilled, out of love for us
who am i to think otherwise of my own life
peace
and love
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