Okay, guess I was wrong. The revelations keep coming to me in God’s own time.
Maybe those of us who believe Donald Trump will lead the country in the wrong direction have the wrong idea. Maybe he’s a catalyst—an image so powerful that it’s designed to get us off our collective passivist asses and start taking action.
2017 is the year of peace. It isn’t going to seem like it, not this year, and it certainly won’t go down in the history books that way. I doubt anyone but God himself will see the reality of this year. But it becomes the beginning of peace on earth only if those of us who want to bring about the Kingdom of God on earth take action. We always have free will, and if we choose to sit idly by, the opportunity to change humanity will pass us by.
I am not advocating marching in the streets. From what I’ve seen, that only begets more violence. Peace begins with each of us individually, in how we treat those around us on a daily basis. Believe me, I struggle with this daily in my own tribulations within my own family. I have already learned a great deal through my own series of “revelations.” Not that I’ve conquered the demon of “frustration” that sends me into fits of anger. Not by along shot. But I hope I’m getting better.
Practice peace in all that you say and do. Refuse to be pressured into speaking or acting in harmful or destructive ways. Do not cave to the rhetoric of hate and anger. Do not hide your light under a basket. Live the example and let others learn from it.
