You know, I often get so overwhelmed with the chaos and disorder in this world. Working at a television station, I often read and see the news as it happens, and frankly, there are many times I just want to shut my door and cry. The thing of it is…I don’t understand why things happen the way they do. I just don’t…I can’t seem to understand why people, especially children, must suffer.When I decided to start writing, I thought that perhaps, there would be some way for me to make a difference. However, at times, I feel like I’m back at square one, squandering, attempting to find my place in this mixed and messed up world.
I’ve heard it many times… ‘Write what you know’. This is what I know…life is what you make it…so…as Gandhi once said, why not ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world'? Lofty thought, yet how many believe that? Hope, many times, is lost...people think that WE can't change the world. However, I think that anyone can help to change the world, if they just put their mind, their talents, their God-given gifts to the cause...
So...despite seeing the daily turmoil, perhaps what we begin to see is the beauty around us; the GOOD people right in front of us...just wanting to do the same thing...change the world, one person at a time...
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Emily,
Hi, thanks so much for your comment on my blog. After reading your latest entry on your blog it seems that you may have needed to hear that quote I found on GrowDeep, like I did. I chewed on it and came back to it after a couple weeks.
As a fellow "wanting to change the worlder" I appreciated that quote because my experience has been that after all the work I've done to accomplish my goal(sought to do), I find that I am already free, in paradise even right where I'm at with the people God has placed me with when I surrender into it, kinda like you said. As long as I can/am being myself I find that I am much more able and effective to change the world one person at a time, as you said.
The part that I am still searching out is, "...when our actions have become more an expression of fear than of inner freedom, we easily become the prisoners of our self-created illusions." I am excited to search this out, and I ask you as well, "What are you really afraid of?" Christ has conquered all things and we are right now blessed in the palm of His hands, no matter the chaos of the world. We struggle not flesh and blood, but self-created, demon imspired illusions, I think. Our personal intimate realtionship with God has all the power, so why do we give so much power to our thoughts and illusions of what we think is happening of might happen, our fears that imprison us?
I don't want to miss my paradise! I don't want to miss my life that God has given to me here right where I'm at!
Live Life to the Fullest!
Thanks so much for inspiring me to process this further.
Your sis in Christ,
Hermi
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