MJonmind
QuoteOn helping heal the world--IMO being here for these 3 1/2 years was our training. I could not have been volunteering somewhere, working, caring for my family, and being here keeping up. Jesus was with his 12 disciples (and women who travelled with as well) for 3 1/2 years too, and then he sent them out, commissioned them. I spent about 30 years of my life volunteering hard core, much of it with children, but my world-view was what the church and media had taught me. Thanks to MJ/TS/Front, and all of you, I will be seeing differently now!
Very well said!
While I do believe that going out and doing something positive is beneficial and needed in order to 'change the world'...I also believe that that wasn't the main purpose behind these 3 1/2 years...our being 'here'. It's been kinda like MJ saying...before you can/do go 'out there', stay with me a little while 'here'. That, in NO way, means that we shouldn't 'go out' when/if the opportunity presents itself or when we're able to. But until the one going out has been changed...until their eyes have been opened to what truly needs to change, both internally and externally...the changes, while positive, will only be temporary and/or small scale when compared to 'changing the world'.
Mike was/is a HUGE champion for suffering children all over the world...to this day, the one person who has given the most to help those in need. What he gave did change lives for the better, no doubt about it...both those receiving the aid and those seeing him extend his hand and heart...and he deserves a special place in Heaven for all the lives he touched and continues to touch. And yet, there are still children starving all over the world...more so now than ever before in human history...there are still children dying of diseases for which there are cures....there are still children being turned onto drugs, except now the 'dealers' wear lab coats and write prescriptions...there are still children not being given a 'real' education...there are still children being locked up for the color of their skin...and there are still children who are exposed daily to lies, false ideals, questionable 'ethics', and decaying morals...through everything they see, hear, learn, or are told to believe.
Until people 'wake up' to the core changes needed...ANY good works we can do, while great and helpful, will not result in the worldwide change that is needed. The entire system needs to change...the same system that makes it very difficult to 'go out' in the first place by having people working multiple jobs just to have enough money to feed their own children.
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and THEN make a change". The 'change' becomes greater and more powerful when the one making the change is fully awake and aware. These past 3 1/2 years, IMO, were Mike's way of helping us take a look at ourselves...not only our personal selves but also the world around us that GREATLY affects every aspect of our 'selves'. As MJonmind said...it's been a training exercise. And the purpose of any 'training' is to gather the skills, knowledge, self-confidence, and power to prepare for, and succeed in, what is to come.
I don't believe the 'best' has come yet...we're still waiting on Mike's command to begin. But I do believe that the 'what is to come' is just around the corner. Instead of passively waiting for it, there is plenty of training that still can, and should, be done...so that we are fully prepared to support Mike when THE momMent arrives.
With L.O.V.E. always.
