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G-Pop took a moment to stop and think.
Sometimes we have to do that. If we don’t stop and create a window to think, we shall not become thoughtful.
G-Pop believes we have created a problem.
For instance, the goal of politics is to convince people that things are really bad and we need this particular candidate to come along and save the situation.
Likewise, the goal of religion is to make people feel bad about themselves–at least enough that they will come and accept God.
And entertainment has an aspiration to make money by manufacturing ideas which make folks feel good about themselves–perhaps even to the detriment of others.
What’s missing? Anyone or anything that offers the wisdom that problems exist, we are part of them, and ventures a guess at possible resolution.
But where is the prophetic voice which reminds us of the mistakes of the past, while addressing our present and offering an ingenious pathway to escape?
Such a voice might lack the pizzaz of doom or the glitter of self-esteem.
Such a proclamation will never be allowed in politics because it offers too much possibility, including the assertion that we could actually agree with our adversary on certain issues.
Religion will certainly reject the message because it involves too much human inclusion and not enough heavenly dominance.
And entertainment is just playing it safe by making sequels of sequels, ending up with the desperate decision to create prequels.
So G-Pop wonders what he can tell his children. What would be a simple axiom which could be applied in every situation as a way of assessing the current twittering mindset?
How about this:
Does this new idea encourage us to love our neighbor as ourselves?
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Unless you become like little children, you will find it difficult to discover God.
I’ve heard that before. It sounds like one of those old adages. Do I believe it? Absolutely not. I want to be considered a “grown-up.” I want maturity brought up in any description of my character.
But I do have to stop on this New Year’s Day and ask myself what good things maturity has given me. The dearth of positive answers causes me to return to that notion of becoming like a little child.
Maybe the whole key to the passage of human life is to take the first twenty years and learn how everything works, the next twenty years to figure out what you can do to make a living and prosper within that system and all the rest of your life to go back to living like a little child–with your profits. What a great idea.
So how do I do that?
I decided to deal with the top six things that haunt us with this specter of “adultism.” Whenever these subjects are brought up, we clear our throats, deepen our voices and begin with some sort of preliminary speech about “such things are not easy to discuss…”
The six subjects are: God, violence, sex, work, money and politics. Not in any particular order.
I realized last night that I’ve been force-fed old thinking on each one of these issues. Some of the thoughts are just “safe.” Some of the ideas have been tried, tested and have failed but are still kept around because…I don’t know. Maybe we already bought the promotional material for them. But even though I have no intention of making resolutions, I do plan to spend the next 365-day jaunt attempting to make restorations. Yes–to restore a child-like vision on each of these six “monsters under my bed” without becoming childish.
Would you mind coming along for six days? I will handle each one of them, offering my limited insight and humble opinion. Because if there is any truth to the statement that we need to “become as little children to find God,” most of us are certainly driving off in the wrong direction. So let me pick for tomorrow.
Let me see …what is my new child-like approach to violence?
Of course, the supreme example of this is Jesus, who was given a cross–and since he was, then he turned it into salvation.
Layovers–you can either take the time to look at your watch … or use the time to watch and look.
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