Comments on: Everything happens… http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=everything-happens Learning to Live Life in Mexico Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=203 By: Linda Rhinehart Neas http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-687 Linda Rhinehart Neas Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:21 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-687 Dear Hearts, I am sitting here shaking my head. You are so right. We are the reason...for it all. Now IS the time to stop the insanity. No one deserves to suffer, have pain, be sick, lack housing, starve or go without food, medicine or an education. Those of us who have a voice MUST start using it to help those whose voice has been lost in the constant babble of uncontrolled power and avarice. Bless you for your awareness, your words, your Light. Peace and Love, Linda Dear Hearts,

I am sitting here shaking my head. You are so right. We are the reason…for it all.

Now IS the time to stop the insanity. No one deserves to suffer, have pain, be sick, lack housing, starve or go without food, medicine or an education. Those of us who have a voice MUST start using it to help those whose voice has been lost in the constant babble of uncontrolled power and avarice.

Bless you for your awareness, your words, your Light.

Peace and Love, Linda

]]> By: 4areson http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-686 4areson Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:50 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-686 Wow, very powerful and thought provoking! Amen Wow, very powerful and thought provoking!
Amen

]]> By: mmlindsey http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-685 mmlindsey Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:11:49 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-685 Maithri, Wow, thank you for your words. It is heartbreaking to come to this precipice and to see the devastation of the war that has so utterly ravaged humanity for so many thousands of years. It seems that we so often peer from the parted curtains of our beautifully sterile homes built on the mountain tops into the blood-stained valley just outside our window, where so many of our own brothers and sisters have died. We choose to deny any responsibility for what we see, to throw off the essence of who we are as Kingdom-bringers and the authority we walk in in this world, and to live in our own matrix, our own false reality. We seem to be awaking to know it is false, but we cling to it in our refusal to engage in the fight that is raging outside our own door, the fight which we are destined to win if we will only begin. How can we wake ourselves from this lethargy? Things absolutely must change. And we are the ones that have been handed the keys to do it, yet we have mindlessly tossed them into our pile of abundance, not realizing the power that they hold. misty Maithri,

Wow, thank you for your words. It is heartbreaking to come to this precipice and to see the devastation of the war that has so utterly ravaged humanity for so many thousands of years. It seems that we so often peer from the parted curtains of our beautifully sterile homes built on the mountain tops into the blood-stained valley just outside our window, where so many of our own brothers and sisters have died.

We choose to deny any responsibility for what we see, to throw off the essence of who we are as Kingdom-bringers and the authority we walk in in this world, and to live in our own matrix, our own false reality. We seem to be awaking to know it is false, but we cling to it in our refusal to engage in the fight that is raging outside our own door, the fight which we are destined to win if we will only begin.

How can we wake ourselves from this lethargy?

Things absolutely must change. And we are the ones that have been handed the keys to do it, yet we have mindlessly tossed them into our pile of abundance, not realizing the power that they hold.

misty

]]> By: Maithri http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-684 Maithri Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:04:19 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-684 Brother, Your words speak to my heart. I read this yesterday and have been thinking about it all night. Damn right we are the reason!!! It is our refusal to see, our neglect of what is, that is the reason behind so much of the suffering in this world. This responsibility is too much for some people to bear... so they choose to shirk it... to transfer it... to say 'thats not my business... Its theirs... its theirs... its theirs..." But ah theres the rub... There is no them. Only us. As Elie Wiesel said " The opposite of love is not hate. Its indiifference." Power and peace to you Brother as you walk the road, M Brother,

Your words speak to my heart.

I read this yesterday and have been thinking about it all night.

Damn right we are the reason!!!

It is our refusal to see, our neglect of what is, that is the reason behind so much of the suffering in this world.

This responsibility is too much for some people to bear… so they choose to shirk it… to transfer it… to say ‘thats not my business… Its theirs… its theirs… its theirs…”

But ah theres the rub…

There is no them.

Only us.

As Elie Wiesel said ”

The opposite of love is not hate.

Its indiifference.”

Power and peace to you Brother as you walk the road,

M

]]> By: mmlindsey http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-683 mmlindsey Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:35:04 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-683 Isaac, I totally agree! It's so much easier to "love your neighbor" as a concept, but to jump into the muck and actually love... most of us have no idea what that even means. I have been so challenged this past year here, even in the midst of overwhelming need it sometimes feels easier to shut down. But we cannot! We absolutely have an obligation to do something, not only as a human family, but even more as the children of God, who are commissioned by our Father and King to actively call down the Kingdom of Heaven to this broken, hurting world. The state of our world today is a direct result of our choices, each one added to the other to paint this picture of a sadly disjointed body who is determinedly fighting to kill itself. This must change, and we can do it... nay, we must do it. Isaac,
I totally agree! It’s so much easier to “love your neighbor” as a concept, but to jump into the muck and actually love… most of us have no idea what that even means. I have been so challenged this past year here, even in the midst of overwhelming need it sometimes feels easier to shut down. But we cannot! We absolutely have an obligation to do something, not only as a human family, but even more as the children of God, who are commissioned by our Father and King to actively call down the Kingdom of Heaven to this broken, hurting world. The state of our world today is a direct result of our choices, each one added to the other to paint this picture of a sadly disjointed body who is determinedly fighting to kill itself. This must change, and we can do it… nay, we must do it.

]]> By: isaac http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-682 isaac Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:36:09 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-682 I too like the quote. How often and readily we avoid personal responsibility – Christian or not. I just read a verse in 1 Timothy (I think) in which Paul tells us that if we do not materially take care of our families, we are worse than unbelievers. While that verse does not exactly apply to this story, one of the concepts is there: we as Christians KNOW BETTER. And we ought to DO better. Our pastor told us a couple of weeks ago about the Roman notion of knowledge: you don't know something unless you do it. I think that there is much we believe, but do not know. I too like the quote. How often and readily we avoid personal responsibility – Christian or not. I just read a verse in 1 Timothy (I think) in which Paul tells us that if we do not materially take care of our families, we are worse than unbelievers. While that verse does not exactly apply to this story, one of the concepts is there: we as Christians KNOW BETTER. And we ought to DO better. Our pastor told us a couple of weeks ago about the Roman notion of knowledge: you don’t know something unless you do it.
I think that there is much we believe, but do not know.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/837#comment-681 Lisa Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:20:12 +0000 http://mmlindsey.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-681 Wow. Said perfectly. That quote is one of my favorites from I.R. Wow. Said perfectly.

That quote is one of my favorites from I.R.

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