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The Inspiration For Change

January 4th, 2007 at 11:56pm Manchild

Congratulations! Day number 4 of this year of firsts. Because you keep choosing to get up and show up, you’re now one step closer to completing the task at hand. Only God knows what will happen next. Today’s inspirational message, The Inspiration For Change, is an adaptation of the Preface borrowed from Part II of my first reality based novel. I updated the Book List last night and will continue to do so as promised. There’s a Book Store link to Amazon.com in the sidebar on the Home page if you see a book you’d like to order. There’s also a GOOGLE search button to help you locate the knowledge you seek. Did you remember to bring your dictionary today? Obfuscate is the word I challenge you to incorporate into your personal and professional conversations today. Peace be with you as you criss-cross the hi-ways and the bye-ways of humanity’s culturally diverse global village.

THE INSPIRATION FOR CHANGE

Our generation’s fears of what’s lurking in the shadows of Change made Failure, Poverty, Rejection, and Violence our closest companions. But that was before Pain became greater than our individual fears of what follows seasons of Change. Until Pain inspired us to face our biggest fears and embrace Change, the strong and weak alike felt content to strike the same defiant pose behind our silent and violent peers just to avoid Rejection. But our vain efforts to avoid the inevitable failed. Without Pain to inspire Change, we found no reason to conquer our fear of Failure due to our constant failure to overcome Fear. Minus the inspiration for Change, our socially alienated souls never negated what emotionally divided the blended extended families of humanity’s global village from within.

Without Pain, nobody became strong enough to rise above the rim of self-imposed limitations just as the previous generations who never overcame their addition to Pleasure. So, the weakest of the weak failed to become bold enough to speak those things that are not as though we had already achieved what our peers believed was impossible. Alas, it didn’t take long before the weakest of the strong forfeited the right to make better choices once Fear silenced our voices. Imagine how hopeless the weakest of the weak felt after hearing the rumor, half-truth, and true lie that only the strongest of the strong would survive the longest.

Nevertheless, Pain and Change kept working together for good until our generation realized that we could trust God without reservation. With all humility, we asked the Almighty to give us the strength we needed to beat impossible odds. So God made us struggle until the weakest of the weak became strong enough to keep risin’ after every fall. We kept embracing Change until we overcame the same fears you’re facing during your dark nights of the soul when all appears lost. Can you imagine how peaceful the world became once our generation stopped repeating the self-defeating cycle of self-destruction you’re trying to break?

Even if you stop getting up and showing up everyday, please know that Jesus loves you too much to give up on you. Neither will I. Besides, God didn’t give up on the person I used to be during my darkest night of the soul despite myself. Only God knows when that glorious day will come when you will rise to your feet long enough for your eyes to meet the greatness of our Father’s faithfulness. So, I won’t pretend to know when God will deliver your soul from the same clear and present danger I faced until Pain became greater than my fear of Change. But by grace still go I. Can we agree to keep struggling to get up and show up until the day you can see all the new mercies and possibilities that I saw every morning? I’m ready and willing to try. Are you? As always, the choice to do so is yours alone to make.

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