Thursday, July 24, 2008

Stargazers

It's time.
It's go time.
See that man walking past you in the grocery store? No, he doesn't look up. Trudging around in concentric circles, jumping from one path to another and yet still orbiting the same central mirage that doesn't actually exist. His path will lead him on into nowhere until the timer-bell rings and he is ultimately lost. All it would take is a nudge and a whisper. A whisper of hope and SURPRISE! because who walks around in grocery stores waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting tragedy? A tragedy no more, I would think, but rather a turnaround. People are communal. WE like eachother. I won't say I like him because I don't know him, but I don't. I love him, so what

is

my

problem?

Stop staring, Drew. Start gazing and subsequently reaching, for this life is more than it seems and your time is waning. The stars are closer than they appear: a trick of light. They are within your grasp because you ride on the shoulders of the Almighty. No distance is too great, no opportunity too unfertile. Be salt and be light. Forget yourself because you don't matter, at least not to yourself. At least you shouldn't. But at least you do to a million other people who've already got this stuff figured out. And most of all, to the one to whom it matters most (who happens to be the one/three who thought it all up in the first place). Yeah, we'll change the world. But let's start with that guy...when the timing is right. No need to worry! He'll let you and I know when
it's go time.
it's God time.

2 comments:

Andreina said...

"Trudging around in concentric circles, jumping from one path to another and yet still orbiting the same central mirage that doesn't actually exist."
-you wrote this? you. wrote this quote? that's incredible Drew. you just captured human futility in a sentence. you expressed everything I have thought about it, without an ounce of judgment. All you did was offer the truth. In excellent writing. wow.

"Start gazing and subsequently reaching, for this life is more than it seems and your time is waning."
-My friend. I don't even know how to tell you how right this blog is. Turnabouts, not tragedies, yes. love above all else, communal, relational, loving turnabout people, not just frigid, independent, tragic islands. i agree. it is up to us to simply listen to God's promptings and Walk Across the Room, and change someone's life for God. To take their nothingness and couple it with our own to join the body of Christ and become something, someone's, His.
It is God's time.
Are you tracking with me here? =]

A.A.B. said...

yes yes yes yes! in the name of rob bell yes!