Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Some days I am not certain which realm I am living in. There is the realm of the things going on around me: the boys at work acting out, harming each other and themselves, cursing parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and now any adult even when the adult is trying to help them. People walk past others judging them on looks alone, fat, skinny, dirty, clean, smelly, fresh, handsome, beautiful, ugly, ordinary, boring, exciting, bland, dangerous. Brandishments on placed on people we don't even know. Distractions from the things we should be doing in the form of movies, television, glamor magazines, pornography, dirty jokes, mocking others, laughing at them, talk radio, left, right. Thinking so much of ourselves, so little of ourselves, losing touch with family, community, our neighbors, our friends.

Some days the above is just too much for me to remain in. And that's just a tiny sampling of the things that distract. When it's all overwhelming then I find myself living in another realm where distractions do not exist. I like myself, my surroundings, my circumstances, I realize that I am able to offer something good to someone, I seek out those whom I think will appreciate me and what I feel I can offer. Is this escapism? Coping? Denial?

Both realms are real and many others in between. It's the meshing of these realms that is important. Not ignoring one for the other. I cannot stay in one over another. Even when circumstances are heavy, very heavy, they must be appreciated, faced, not ignored or avoided.

It's a day to remember those we have lost, to hope for those we want, no, NEED to return. A day to think about people everywhere fighting battles we cannot understand, battles they have not chosen but have to be part of. And we pray. For we are all soldiers, we are all brothers and sisters in arms... Somehow our battle has become something we fight against each other and we are so, so far from who and what we are meant to be.

Healers, encouragers, helpers, lovers, welcomers, brothers, sisters, moms, dads, aunts, uncles, families, neighbors, worshippers, forgivers...

Hear us in our pain, our struggle, let us love again, forgive us for we sin against You again, and again, and again, and again. Welcome us, hold us, free us...all of us...be with us, in us and use us for Your Glory.

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