These are some crazy times we’re living in.
Only looking at the nation where I live there are moments where everything just feels like, too much. Too much division, too much anger, too much turmoil, too much sickness, too much loss. I look at the world through the filter of my faith, and as much as my heart hurts for humanity right now, I can easily see what’s needed. But, how do you communicate a cure when no one recognizes they’re sick?
I’m not referring to a vaccine for COVID, that’s (believe it or not) NOT what we’re missing, that’s not what we’re desperately needing.
Lately, I find myself enjoying those “feel good” shows more and more. I’m absolutely loving TikTok because of how entertaining people can be, how creative they are… when they’re not being “normal”.
I long in my heart to just be immersed in art and music. Why? Because in the purity of creativity I can see the better side of us. The side that puts on display our pain, our vulnerability and still invites conversations, invites analysis, heck… genuine openness. When it comes to art, we already understand that everyone’s perspective or “taste” is going to be different. Therefore, varying viewpoints are actually welcomed and fodder for grandiose discussions about context, ideas, color, beauty, pain… I mean you name it! That’s art. What’s created is always such an easy topic to dive into. It’s like I see one thing in a painting, and then you see it differently, and we enjoy discussing why we see the same piece in different ways. In our differences, we actually find enlightenment.
Isn’t what’s created such an easy topic to dive into? Well, that depends… define “created”, right?
A long, long time ago we went astray. We departed the original road laid out for us and a lot of us have not found our way back.
People, we are living in very strange times. Times where everyone is very aware of others emotions but negligent about facts and oblivious to truth.
My heat breaks for the world, for the lost, for the lives being lived in an absence of love, in the destitute state of never knowing grace, of a life exhibiting a lack of understanding of what mercy really is.
But… how do you tell someone that doesn’t know they’re lost and wandering, that they are in fact, lost and wandering… and up ahead… the road washes out and there’s nowhere to go? For real, how do you that? If not by patiently showing them the map and laying out the actual directions? Because, if you’re just trying to yell at them as they zoom by you; then, you didn’t actually communicate anything.