IT HURTS.
Yes. Yes it does. I’m not an insensitive robot. It makes my brain feel like it’s going to short circuit. My chest feel like an elephant has come to his resting place atop of my bosom. My stomach feel like the intestines have been double knotted so that they can’t come untied. There are moments when I just want to climb in bed and make it all go away…. Or make me go away. But it doesn’t, and I don’t. I rise with the sun and the mountains remain…. Beckoning me back. When you transcend mountains… then you become strong. Weakness is what is felt during the process. That pain? I hope you feel it too. Yeah, …. Yeah, I do. I don’t believe that we were created to be desensitized, self gratified, muted, stagnant, working machines.
As much as my heart bleeds for those suffering injustice, my heart also aches for those who accept the Novocain of entertainment and surface pleasure ……. And I hope that SOMETHING rocks your world so that you can experience life to the full. I hope your deep places are awakened. I hope your passion is aroused and shoots as high as the highest mountain… and beyond. I hope you experience the great depths of pain. Pressure can hurt…. It can also initiate great change. Consider the diamond and the lump of coal that it was. You were created to be beautiful…. to transform from coal to diamond from caterpillar to butterfly. Each of these requires pressure…. struggle….. pain. Embrace it. Trust that you were created to be able to process pain…… and from ashes comes beauty.
So please don’t tell me that you can’t look at “those posts” of starving children. Please don’t tell me that you couldn’t do foster care. Don't tell me that you just want to take a pill. (these are just a few examples). Don’t guard your heart from the reality of others. Look at the photos. Visit the homeless. Educate yourself. Let it become REAL to you. Be brave. Press through the hard stuff. Become beautiful and you then will become an activating agent to the transformation of others and the world around you. Or at least be honest and say….. “No thanks, I’m content to live complacent and die unfulfilled. I’m fine just taking up space and feeling comfy. ” Don’t tell me you can’t….Because I know that you CAN do hard things… you were created for it. It’s a matter of choice……… Do you want to?
Yes. Yes it does. I’m not an insensitive robot. It makes my brain feel like it’s going to short circuit. My chest feel like an elephant has come to his resting place atop of my bosom. My stomach feel like the intestines have been double knotted so that they can’t come untied. There are moments when I just want to climb in bed and make it all go away…. Or make me go away. But it doesn’t, and I don’t. I rise with the sun and the mountains remain…. Beckoning me back. When you transcend mountains… then you become strong. Weakness is what is felt during the process. That pain? I hope you feel it too. Yeah, …. Yeah, I do. I don’t believe that we were created to be desensitized, self gratified, muted, stagnant, working machines.
As much as my heart bleeds for those suffering injustice, my heart also aches for those who accept the Novocain of entertainment and surface pleasure ……. And I hope that SOMETHING rocks your world so that you can experience life to the full. I hope your deep places are awakened. I hope your passion is aroused and shoots as high as the highest mountain… and beyond. I hope you experience the great depths of pain. Pressure can hurt…. It can also initiate great change. Consider the diamond and the lump of coal that it was. You were created to be beautiful…. to transform from coal to diamond from caterpillar to butterfly. Each of these requires pressure…. struggle….. pain. Embrace it. Trust that you were created to be able to process pain…… and from ashes comes beauty.
So please don’t tell me that you can’t look at “those posts” of starving children. Please don’t tell me that you couldn’t do foster care. Don't tell me that you just want to take a pill. (these are just a few examples). Don’t guard your heart from the reality of others. Look at the photos. Visit the homeless. Educate yourself. Let it become REAL to you. Be brave. Press through the hard stuff. Become beautiful and you then will become an activating agent to the transformation of others and the world around you. Or at least be honest and say….. “No thanks, I’m content to live complacent and die unfulfilled. I’m fine just taking up space and feeling comfy. ” Don’t tell me you can’t….Because I know that you CAN do hard things… you were created for it. It’s a matter of choice……… Do you want to?
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