Something's Afoot

Maybe it's just the friends I have, and the upheaval rising in their lives as pressing changes are required; maybe it's just the places God is taking me, in my home, in my community, and in every community He leads me to visit, where myself, my wife, and a plethora of others find themselves standing on the precipice of an unsettled future, immediate and distant, and what will unfold; Or maybe, it has always been this way and I was unable to see it.

These eyes of faith, and heart are seeing a host of people wrestling in turmoil, looking for hope, and searching for the truth, the way, and the light. Is it just me? Or if we all stop just thinking about ourselves and our own lives, being consumed by our own problems, our own upheavals, will we discover that our situation reflects what is common in all, in our homes, our marriages, our community, our nation, our world? Unrest, unease, an unsettling seems to be rising not in all, but in most, most who are aware and, to me, many who are following Jesus.

Can you feel it? Can you hear it? It is as if a call of urgency and an opening of doors unlike any in recent memories of peoples is on our doorstep. It seems to be a call to cease influence by the vacuum and void of world, and begin being influenced by the glorious God who runs it. It is a call to change the priorities in our lives to reflect our claim of the divine call upon our hearts, the true and real call of Godliness and purity; The call that restores and gives hope to the hopeless, and brings grace into what could usher in chaos.

Could it be that I am just being thrust into situation after situation where the people are faced with challenging upheaval in their lives, along with that in the life of my wife and I? Could it be that for some reason these are actually microcosms of upheaval and distress? As you read, and wonder if I am simply overly dramatizing the general state of our lives here, could it be that you are so steeped in your own problems that you cannot see it in others?

Something's always afoot. We may go through brief times of contentment and satisfaction, and should they continue, sloth and mindless waste result. But is there an arising, an unsettling, and upheaval in general? Is my experience really the norm? Only time will tell. How much we have left, may not be much.