ZEALOTRY

Zealotry seems to be on the rise, and as always, fear is at the heart of it. I'm just not interested in any of the methods the zealots always employ in order to accomplish their set goals. Fear will always produce fearful people and fearful people whether they be looking up from the bottom or looking down from the top of the domination pyramid have no ability to change the game. They just shuffle the deck and move the players around. The game always stays the same...it just takes on different flavors.

But love is different and it is this revolution of love that I refuse to allow the atmosphere of fear and the zealots to distract me from. I just love how this kind of change is expressed in the last chapter of The Shack.

It's a revolution of love and kindness---"a revolution that revolves around Jesus and what he did for us all and what he continues to do in anyone who has a hunger for reconciliation and a place to call home. This is not a revolution that will overthrow anything, or if it does, it will do it in ways we could never contrive in advance. Instead it will be the quiet daily powers of dying and serving and loving and laughing, of simple tenderness and unseen kindness, because if anything matters, everything matters."

The past two day (as you all know by now) I have been taking in the new music from U2. It's full of this truth about the revolution of love being the power that will bring us the kind of change we all long for and it stands up to the mistaken notion of fear driven zealotry. I'm not interested anymore in just any change...I'm only interested in the kind of change that can set us free. I refuse to waste any of my time being sucked into the propaganda of fear that is being spewed about by all those who themselves are operating from a place of fear.

But the moment of surrender doesn't come easy when the fear and it's accompanying ridiculous voices keep having their way with us. But Love is always at work to drive out that fear. When that happens...the choice becomes clear.

From the song MOMENT OF SURRENDER

At the moment of surrender
I'm falling to my knees
I did not notice the passers by
And they did not notice me

I’ve been in every black hole
At the alter of a Dark star
My body's now begging
Though it’s begging to get back
Begging to get back
To my heart
To the rhythm of my soul
To the rhythm of my consciousness
To the rhythm that yearns
To be released from control