Tripping...

2018!  The year of the coming of age! The portal to a new tomorrow.  In a world where everything seems to be up for grabs - no clear path to choose, just gray overtones of left-over social expectations that now seem so out of place.  People once lived in a "Bible belt" structured maze.  A place where the golden rule was just that.  Where it seemed that everyone was too polite to question the going norms and rules.  Those who did were quickly shunned.  But now - in todays fast flowing ebbing tide we see violent challenges to the status quo and to law and order.  Chaos rules supreme.  Even the leaders of the free world are awash in turning the tide in was never seen before.  Open rebellion to any straight and narrow ideals long respected as the "right way" to live have left the new up an coming genration floundering in the primordial haze - garbage heap.

We never realize what we had until it is gone!  Trying to find sense in the common things in life - these days - seems near impossible.  Like a torpedo with no destination programmed into the trajectory - today we see the self-destruct button being pushed by large groups in society giving us the never-ending opioid crisis of a civilization too free for its own good!  A no rules Sponge Bob Square Pants lagoon of farting creepers!  Life has become a cartoon of sorts.  Losing at life has become a fine art.  The homeless crisis takes millions of dollars to keep functioning, as sanctuary cities are filled to the brim with waste and filth no one can clean up.  Everywhere you look you see plastic strung up as tents for the endless misery that calls such filth "home".  No way out!  Beg - barrow - and steal... Stilll no way out!  J-O-B is the new four letter curse word.  Its much easier to stand in the rain on the corner hoping for a few bucks from a passer-by than to get off the addiction path and find some better way to live.  Still, no way out!

It can never be said that we haven't tried.  As a society we are always looking for some new way to spend our hard earned money.  Some new cause to get behind.  But the underlying problems still persist.  The solution to all this messy mess still seems to elude us.  The haves and the have-nots.  The rich get richer while the poor get poorer!  The cycle never stops.  But why is that?

Could it be that you and I are the problem and at the same time hold the key to open Heavens door?  Are we so blinded by our own self interests that we fail to comprehend the very answers we are looking for now?  Are we really rational thinkers?  Do we possess the true wisdom that must be applied to our world situation so that the changes we seek will come to us in our life-times? 

Time is running out!  We need to act now if we stand a chance of turning this ship around.  The rats are already jumping over-board!  We must act!  But how?  With what?

Devote one hour each day to the silence within your own space.  Step aside and let the world pass.  It is in that moment the assurance is known which brings all things to their intended purpose and transforms the world.  It is your faith!