All along this adoption journey, it seems as though I've stumbled across the right people, books, and blogs at the right time to expand my view, or help me over a hurdle. I have to admit to some trepidation at having stumbled across this blog post recently. There are no accidents.
This High Calling: Uncensored: It has been so long since I wrote here, or anywhere else...too long. It's just, Satan's whispers of doubt and deceit have been ever so lou...
It resonates. I almost can't hear the resonation due to the knocking of my knees. It feels like a seismic shift has taken place....like things aren't located where they used to be. I haven't explored this shift fully yet. I haven't even been able to look it full on yet. Deep breath.
Having worked in health care for over 20 years, I'm one of the first people to talk about how broken The System is...the welfare system, our healthcare system, the education system, the insurance system....the tale wags the dog. I'm one of the people that can tell you what's wrong with the system, but doesn't have a lot of useful insight into how to fix the mess that it is without abandoning the people dependent on the system. This post...this post contains the answer, I think. You can't legislate this, or mandate it. It's going to take people like this, willing to get dirty. People who are not judging, but actually willin to get dirty in order to SHOW people a different way. Not preach to them, not tell them, not judge them, not DO IT FOR THEM, but take their hand and walk with them...(when I say "them" I also include me...I'm not above a lot of the ills of the system).
We live within a system designed to keep us all dependent...dependent on someone else to educate our kids, babysit our kids, raise our kids...dependent on someone to medicate us so that we don't have to be responsible for our own health...so used to easy that we don't even realize that it's the easy that's killing us ...fooled into allowing someone to sedate us with mindless entertainment so we don't notice that we aren't living up to our potential, that our lives are slipping by while we rush from one distraction to the next without making any real connections or impact.
We all know that random person who doesn't participate in this craziness, that person we secretly think of as eccentric. The one who has gone "off the grid"- to homeschool their children, or be a stay-at-home-mom when all their friends are buying a bigger house with the second income, or eating organic/vegetarian, or whatever there alternative medicine choice is in order to be healthier, instead of taking a pill. I don't think they are eccentric. I think they know the system is broken and the first step to fixing it is to assume responsibility for what we can, while we can.
I haven't finished processing the posts I've linked below. I just know it's important. I know it's broader than even this most important topic the author writes about. I know it scares me. Go ahead and read it. Be changed.
PS
And I just read this earlier post
http://thishighcalling.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-01-15T18:40:00-08:00&max-results=7 by the same author.....chest is burning.
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