Extremes and faith. Yesterday I would have said the extremes were signs of victories in faith. Flexibility, the ability to be ready, need nothing and go!!! Go, go as the call was made and the sacrifice required was presented. Go with a smile in the middle of the night.
Yesterday I would have said that extreme faith was the only way to test my commitment to the absolute. This would mean loss after loss, but a better fight after fight!
But then the extremes became normal, my brain became addicted and my heart lost reason. The distance between safe and unsafe ever wider.
So a few generations on, yesterday became today and now we fight for a firmer future but we stand on sand.
The new extremes are not the normal obvious whizz bang boooo!!!. The extremes are now things we dare not believe and talk about with whispered breath like consistency, longevity and trust.
Yep! the new extremes are not a high risk or a potent mixture of heady grit between the teeth. They are just the basic building blocks of relationship.
These new extremes are barely remembered, if at all. There are few places to learn them from in this rushed instant existence, they are what make relationships grow and nurture. The new extremes such as honesty, love, loyalty, fun, joy and connection.
Join a revolution in the extremes of today with rebuilding safety that can create houses on rocks. Join a revolution in having to learn about roots and sticks.
Join a revolution in the biggest most scary things of all, being in relationship with the wider. Home making, being friend, being mother, being father, being son / daughter, being community, creating safety rocks and making genuineness that last a life time.
A new set of weary soldiers shout;
"We want to live on rocks, the sand made us sea sick with its swaying".
"We want to build on rocks so we have solid places to bungee from and spring back to".
So may we have the courage to cut this new extreme path. The sight to see the longer way over individual, instant, and idealistic gain.
Revolutionaries;
"build with others, connected no longer be alone". As history had tried to say before, "No man is an island and singular ness is not his throne".
Then on the rocks, villages will appear!, the old and young will learn to live again, need will be appeased and people will see people not just a possibility of gain.
Yep, in this new love revolution family and community will reign.
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