You're probably so sick of reading the same things over and over again... I apologize for that in some ways, but in most ways I am not apologetic because I believe these things to be true and they are things that I am learning. I am also not sympathetic to your cause either, mostly because you yourself have chosen to come here and read this... no one's forcing you to do so. :)
Anywho, family time at Christmas always brings about interesting topics (to me at least) and I just like to rant and rave about some of it and some of it, I think nothing about. I will not bore you with the details of the comments made by some of my family members, they were never meant to be offensive or controversial (or at least to my knowledge, they weren't). However, there is something about knowing something and hearing something different and realizing that you are just at a different place. My parents were so lucky that I rode with them tonight because they got to hear me talk about half the way home. :) I am so tired of people complaining about things that do not change and they themselves not doing anything about it. REALLY!?!?! As if things were peachy keen before we got here? They weren't unfortunately and that is actually okay because we know a God who is in complete control and will handle all of it! He doesn't need us, He wants us... (just a sidenote) So the topic was about a presidential issue and how shocked they were to hear it and I just think to myself (and say aloud to my parents later), "What if we actually worried about people who need to be worried about?" What if you took a moment and changed the world of someone you are around, rather than worrying about how the president should spend his day? Now... on the other hand, yes the president will one day stand before God and have to answer for the things that he was given responsibility for. Honestly though, you (or myself) will not have to stand before God and answer questions about what the president should or should not have done. I will have to answer for the 1,000 or so students that have walked into my classroom over the past 4 years. You will have to answer for those you work with, that are in your family, and others around you (including your church!). Not that you will have to answer for them but more what you did with what you were given. What are you doing with the life that you have been given?? I mean, really what are you doing? Rather than saying how disgusted you are by the litter in your area, take a group of people and clean it up. Does it break your heart that people in your neighborhood are hungry? Feed them! It is time for us to stop complaining and start backing up what we think should be done with what is done. What will complaining ever do for anyone? Absolutely nothing. (This will be a very unfortunate reality for a lot of us, right?)
So what does faith and deeds have to do with this? You have faith? Pray for more... and then ask God to convict you of things you should do with your faith! Do not ask God to make you busy, rather more aware of the people and things around you that needs to be changed. He knows we do not need another event.. however things that we are passionate about do not become events, instead they become places for our lives to be completely and radically changed by Him! We don't need more people to claim they have faith or more people to just do things... we actually need people to have faith and because of that faith, change the world around them!
I was given one of the greatest compliments a month or so ago when I was given a letter from a previous student, Ramon, who said, "Thank you for being the change you wish to see in the world." This is not bragging, more asking... are you actually being the change you wish to see in the world... or are you so concerned what others are and are not doing that you have forgotten what change you wanted to see? May this be a challenge to you and a challenge to myself... as well as conviction that I must live my life with actions and words.
"Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary." -Mother Teresa
-Melis
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