Something to do: love.
We feel inconsequential to affect the world.
We get overwhelmed.
We freeze.
I am familiar with this too.
But, I know something: You and I can change the world.
Let us be delighted on Thursday knowing that we have done that which we knew we were capable – we have changed the world.
The Butterfly Effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.
You and I
- Clean up the enviornment in which you live
- Curb yourself from saying a few snarky remarks
- Go out of your way to be kind, three times today
- Practice patience – and be proud of yourself if you stayed patient for 1.6 seconds when in the past you could only keep yourself from erupting for 1.5 seconds
- Stop complaining with your words or your expressions, or at least cut down the number of times you do either
- Express gratitude aloud or in a journal
- Lovingly call-out someone who is dehumanizing towards their perceived enemies so they can learn to stop fueling hatred
- Connect with people and express to them hope – for hope, like love, is something we all yearn for and require
Yes.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
- You can change the world.
- You are needed for the world to change.
Really?!
- Really? You believe this?
- You, Brian, are going to write an article that will actually pursuade people to take small actions?
- Yes, yes, I very much hope so.
But, I need your help.
This poem
Fear Is The Cheapest Room In The House
Fear is the cheapest room in the house
I would like to see you living
In better conditions,
for your mother and my mother
Were friends.
I know the Innkeeper
In this part of the universe.
Get some rest tonight,
Come to my verse tomorrow.
We’ll go speak to the Friend together.
I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world-
Something good will happen.
God wants to see
More love and playfulness in your eyes
For that is your greatest witness to Him.
Your soul and my soul
Once sat together in the Beloved’s womb
Playing footsie.
Your heart and my heart
are very, very old
Friends.
Why not?
What do we have to lose by flooding the world with a myriad of small, little, unsexy ways of being more loving, compassionate, caring, long-suffering, kind, humble, gentle, virtuous? We have so much to lose. And so much to gain.
Let us see that the world is a better place by Thursday.