Just finished reading Joel Salatin's book Folks This Ain't Normal, which is a book every American citizen should read...one of the best books I've read that articulates so many examples of (and solutions for) the muck our country and world is really in. It just reminds me again at a much deeper and more informed level how "insane" things have become in our world, in these times---in this transition of the age.
I was talking with my friend today and shared a nugget I learned from Folks This Ain't Normal about how our government (since a 2001 and 2004 salmonella outbreak traceable to only one pistachio-almond farm in the entire US) now mandates the steam heating or fumigation with propylene oxide (an EPA-registered carcinogen) to all raw almonds...the almonds that are labeled "raw" on the package.
She texted back, "I get so overwhelmed by all the crazy stuff going on. It's exhausting."
And my reply to her, "I can relate. I know this sounds cliche but my antidote, my joy, the ability to grieve the "world" or "life" I wanted to live in where insane things like this weren't happening, and then to gain perspective of how to live "offensively" with joy, victory, love, and eternal purpose---that truly only comes when I force myself to make time to sit in God and Holy Spirit's presence and see how things are in Heaven, to feel them, to connect with them in the questions I have for living my life today...here on earth...and gain that eternal picture again of our lives. We are, in fact, eternal beings---heirs of the King of kings...and that makes us beloved sons and daughters of some pretty Supernatural parents. If I stare at the insanity around me too long I feel depleted, sorrowful, like we're on the "losing team", scared, paralyzed...and then I realize I've fallen into the trap of believing the LIE that Jesus isn't bigger, that his love doesn't overcome the darkest evil, that he hasn't already won, and that I haven't already "lost" my life and gained my eternal one...the one he paid the price for me to live in freedom and liberty.
As Ben and Kelly sing in Every Table is An Altar, "let our hearts be awake, be awake."
I was talking with my friend today and shared a nugget I learned from Folks This Ain't Normal about how our government (since a 2001 and 2004 salmonella outbreak traceable to only one pistachio-almond farm in the entire US) now mandates the steam heating or fumigation with propylene oxide (an EPA-registered carcinogen) to all raw almonds...the almonds that are labeled "raw" on the package.
She texted back, "I get so overwhelmed by all the crazy stuff going on. It's exhausting."
And my reply to her, "I can relate. I know this sounds cliche but my antidote, my joy, the ability to grieve the "world" or "life" I wanted to live in where insane things like this weren't happening, and then to gain perspective of how to live "offensively" with joy, victory, love, and eternal purpose---that truly only comes when I force myself to make time to sit in God and Holy Spirit's presence and see how things are in Heaven, to feel them, to connect with them in the questions I have for living my life today...here on earth...and gain that eternal picture again of our lives. We are, in fact, eternal beings---heirs of the King of kings...and that makes us beloved sons and daughters of some pretty Supernatural parents. If I stare at the insanity around me too long I feel depleted, sorrowful, like we're on the "losing team", scared, paralyzed...and then I realize I've fallen into the trap of believing the LIE that Jesus isn't bigger, that his love doesn't overcome the darkest evil, that he hasn't already won, and that I haven't already "lost" my life and gained my eternal one...the one he paid the price for me to live in freedom and liberty.
As Ben and Kelly sing in Every Table is An Altar, "let our hearts be awake, be awake."
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