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Many years ago, packing up and getting ready to leave a small Upper Room venue, where a couple dozen bare-footed and jean-clad souls had gathered to listen to music while sipping tea and eating day-old doughnuts graciously provided by the local baker, I received warm hugs and two abiding sentiments: keep truckin’ and keep the faith.
Tears filled the eyes of the exhorter, only partially clouding the great emotion of hope, belief and abiding knowledge that God isn’t done with any of us yet.
Alas, a new wave of pessimism, cynicism and agnosticism is sweeping our country and is even permeating the pores of the righteous, and makes such declarations–“keep truckin'” and “keep the faith”–seem misplaced, nostalgic and even absurd.
I have no desire to return to former times that were plagued with their own viral stupidities, but there is a thread of gentleness that has to be passed from one generation to another. Otherwise, this experiment of humanity comes unraveled.
So with humility in my heart and an abundance of confidence in my soul, I share with you the five phases necessary to change the world. Please take them on one at a time, and when you feel the nudge and permission from your spirit, move on and allow yourself the joy of embracing the next possibility.
PHASE ONE
Change my heart
Awake my soul
Renew my mind
Give me strength
PHASE TWO
(As Boldness Allows)
Anoint my touch
Expand my reach
Let me stand
Enliven my moves
PHASE THREE
(After Spiritual Muscle Has Grown)
Bless my walk
Guide my steps
Give me people
Let me be gentle
Share, don’t preach
Feel, don’t teach
PHASE FOUR
(Enlivened, Moving On)
Learn instead of know
Watch myself grow
Establish trust
Relate good news
Avoid the darkness
Light a candle
Do good works
PHASE FIVE
(Glorified, I Continue)
Reject my fear
Welcome new love
Point joyously to progress
Call progress God.
Keep truckin’. Keep the faith.
(pictures of journey from Gallup, New Mexico to Paonia, Colorado)
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