Jonathots Daily Blog
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It is different. There’s no doubt about it.
After seventeen years of traveling the United States with Janet, crisscrossing the nation many times, I can tell you, there is a new attitude in the air.
Perhaps it’s wrong for me to use the word “new.” That connotes something positive or transforming. Instead, the experience is a bit regressive, harkening to a time when we made our decisions through the dark cloud of caution instead of the bright sunshine of optimism.
It may be the reason that the majority of our populace refers to themselves as “conservative”–simply because there’s an underlying message in that proclamation which cries out: “Leave me alone.”
If it is possible for me to share this without you feeling that I’m critical, then you have a true understanding of my heart.
There’s a three-headed monster at work. If you don’t understand this monstrosity, you could become discouraged, or even jaded.
- Hurt
- suspicion
- and apathy dictate the choices of those who are in power and even the souls of those who feel powerless.
And it does no good to ask them why they hurt, the cause of their suspicion or to attempt to stimulate them out of apathy. Because people feel hurt, they are suspicious of anything that comes along that might increase their pain, so they choose to do nothing, to protect themselves from further damage–thus apathy.
Both Janet and I have sat down and considered the fields set before us and have carefully chosen our approach.
The only successful approach to hurt is mercy.
Mercy is a magnificent virtue. It not only grants healing to the suffering in front of you, but gives permission to others, and even God, to be merciful to you.
In trying to broach suspicion, the only path that has any prudence is patience.
That’s why the Good Book says “in your patience you possess your soul.” No one in this country will be successfully overwhelmed, pushed, criticized or evangelized into a new awakening. It will take patience. And that requires that I find something I enjoy doing, keep pursuing better ways to do it and run on my own pleasure instead of a clock.
After you hurdle the hurt through mercy and broach the suspicion with patience, apathy will only be overcome by good cheer.
Yes, I believe we have a much better chance of laughing our way out of our misery than we ever will debating it or legislating it. I contend that discovering powerful reasons for being alive opens the door to problem-solving.
It is different. It requires that we minister to hurt, suspicion and apathy.
It will take merciful people who patiently are enjoying themselves and are not in a hurry for results … and bring along buckets and buckets of good cheer.
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