Love Baby Jesus Day...

A conversation with a forever friend began with a text sent early morning as evidenced by my slightly off-colour sense of humour...'happy love baby Jesus day.'

Being Sunday or any other weekly spot ending in 'day' we know and have our being in an everlasting love...a heart of compassion for His creation and all that life tends to serve up.

Followed on the heels of these thoughts was the question as to how man can be so evil, so cruel, so heartless when we were fashioned in the image of God?

How is it possible to do harm, nay...not only harm, so much worse. Torture, evil debase pleasures being carried out every minute of every day...going back centuries and centuries...for thousands of years mankind has lowered themselves to animalistic pursuits, to wars in the name of God, Allah and the myriad count that states anywhere between 18, 000 and 100, 000 gods worshipped, sacrificed for.

Salem witch trials...the Spanish Inquisition...French Revolution...Messenian Wars...Gailic Wars...Hitlers evil agenda to wipe Jews from the face of the earth...thousands killed, maimed, tortured...

It is a dark subject today as my mind travels along the capacity for human/animal cruelty highways and biways. Today we face a different kind of war...an epidemic of gigantic proportions that does not get talked about enough. Trafficking and Domestic Abuse, Sexual exploitation and violence...

How God must suffer as He steps alongside in an attempt to gain attention, to stop the perpetrator in their tracks...how He must cry when viewing the world at large using children, using women and men for horrific acts...

I do not know the way...and this bothers me, this irks me...I fight my personal demon sitting at home plotting his evil ways and I wonder if this is all leading to something more, something bigger than just myself and facing my fears, standing up to the monster standing at the door each day.

I do not know the way...but oh I wish to...I wish to stand in the gap, to affect change, to SEE events shift in favour of the innocent, used and abused...

I pray daily, minute by minute, hour by hour for more...for the eyes to see, a heart to give, and hands able to do something, anything.

I think on a grand scale and place the enemy in my life at the bottom of the pile where he belongs...a nothing, a small town smokeshow, all show no go...he plots evil on my behalf thinking himself wise, canny and smart when in truth he stands small and insignificant.

I fight to learn...I push back and demand answers to gain wisdom...but in truth I see him for who he is, a gnat on the back of a much larger animal...fear dissipates in the light of love, the love I see each day in those who understand human decency, who love me for me...no boundaries, lines of play, rule books ever shifting...fear leaves the equation as I recognize the modus operandi of the monster; hidden behind closed doors, cowardly deeds done in the dark, never in the open.

Dear treasures...exposure, while frightening in the moment, stops them in their tracks...speaking on the abuse, talking to others shines a spotlight on their cowardice...frightened children cowering in the corner, jumping at every shadow, striking out in fear and rage to control their circumstances...always alone, desperate for supply to quiet the voices screaming in their minds...

Let us stand...let us all find a way to do something in an age where the world (most especialy our corner of it) seems to have lost its mind. Narcissistic egomaniacs ruling the country watching as our economy sinks unlike anything we've seen since the Great Depression. Watching as Trafficking becomes the biggest money maker ever recorded, over drugs and guns combined.

I encourage you to seek numbers, to seek knowledge...I warn you also as the numbers are staggering, the information dark and overwhelming... there are those who fight, who seek change, who fight an ever increasing battle against those in power who hide, who protect those with the money...countless organizations fight a battle that must seem insurmountable as it continues to grow and expand.

And so I find my purpose...I find goals I can work towards no matter how impossible they may seem...God is the God of possible, nothing beyond His grasp.

I ramble on today and thank you for your patience...I write in an attempt to understand and sit in gratitude for those who walk alongside in love and compassion...

I sit with a heart of thankfulness for those, you know who you are, I have known since a young age who love, who support just by being...I know with a phone call any number of those close early friendships forged as a young adult would step up, would move mountains if needed.

Bless you each one...when days become too much, when the weight of oppression from a monster becomes too heavy to bear, I think on you...I gather you with me as I move, as I speak truth...I step up knowing that their are those who stand with me in spirit, in prayer and in deed.

Let us go today and each day forward asking what we can do to effect change...let us extend kindnesses to those in need, let us take a moment to express compassion for those in low places...it saves, it builds strength...it brings hope in hopeless situations...truly.

God bless you today and each day forward with grace, with mercy, with strength for what life brings...