Jonathots Daily Blog
(3693)
There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
You can “go crazy” or you can “stay sane.” One requires you go and another suggests you stay.
If you intend on spending your life chasing what is popular, convinced that the numbers, profit margin and adulation is proof of its value, then you will end up constantly finding yourself splashing down into a pool of disappointment.
After all, consider the word popular–it “pops up,” and then, when it’s proven to be insufficient for human growth, it pops again, like a balloon, and goes away.
Here is a statement: virtue, love, tenderness, creativity, gentleness and honesty will never be popular.
You will never get the majority of the people to agree at any single moment to swing their weight in the direction of faith, hope and charity. These attributes are enduring.
Those who stay and follow them, when the “crazy” goes away, will find themselves positioned to be of help for friends and family who were wounded by the latest failed fad.
You might ask, what’s the difference between crazy and sane?
Crazy is any movement that suggests that the absence of mercy will achieve progress.
Sane is understanding that the greatest progress we can make is to apply mercy to every situation.
It’s all about mercy. There is no kindness without mercy. There is no love without mercy. Mercy is realizing that even if things don’t get better, we can work with what we have to find some good.
This will never be popular.
There will be more screams for revenge, vindication and violence as the years go by.
You can “go” after these causes, but you’ll end up crazy. Or you can “stay” with the power of mercy and remain sane.
So here is your salient moment:
There will be many voices in the wilderness. If you follow them you will go crazy.
There will always be an opportunity for mercy. If you embrace it, sanity will be your prize.
The producers of jonathots would humbly request a yearly subscription donation for this wonderful, inspirational opportunity
Jonathots Daily Blog 