Settling for Everything … (10/08/16)
“It’s so easy for us to settle — to settle for comfort; to settle for security; to settle for ease; to decry the courageous in favor of settling for the accepted or the familiar or the popular … And this caving to convenience is understandable. After all, we are driven by eons-old instincts to find meaning & safety in “connecting” and surrounding ourselves with those of like mind.
And yet when we settle for such settling, we miss out on the true magnificence that awaits us. For in reality, we are ALL intimately connected … We are all Brothers & Sisters — all co-travelers along the same River of Life.
And if we settle for settling — if we settle for excluding strangers and protecting ourselves from enemies and competing against our rivals and hoarding more than we need, then the far greater Victory is always lost.
Because when we settle for such settling, we never take the leap of real Love — and we thus never know what Love can be.
Real Love is always a risk … Real Love is always dangerous … Real Love is always a Leap of Faith — always a verb; an act of Kindness done when we least wish to do it, especially for those “least deserving” of the same … Real Love means refusing to settle — always requiring us to step outside of ourselves.
And yet we struggle to give that fully … Instead, we come to Love’s waters and meekly dip our toes into the same. We give where it is safe to give, and we love only those who are Loving us in return … After all, we have already settled for warm & comfortable, so why bother leaping into the unknown? Why bother taking the risk?
Well, I’ll tell you why we need to bother. We need to bother because settling for selfishness & settling for safety have brought us to the edge of disaster … Look around you even now …
Look at your Earth — with her waters poisoned and her lands pillaged. Look to the animals — confined and abused and murdered by the millions. Look to your neighbors — many of them hungry and cold and afraid. Look at your Loved ones — being tempted and teased and tormented by the corrupt from on high.
We can no longer afford to settle, my Friends … Your Loved ones need you to leap — Your neighbors need you to Leap — The animals need you to leap … The Earth needs you to Leap.
The time has passed for apathy & and the age of selfish sloth has died. These are the days when True Warriors must rise … Warriors who refuse to coddle the superficial — Warriors who refuse to settle for injustice — Warriors who refuse to sanction war.
We can no longer merely serve us & ours … We must awaken to the needs of our far greater Great Family — and we must choose to boldly act accordingly.
We must do so unconditionally, we must do so radically, and we must do so actively — without holding back; without settling for anything but real LOVE.”
(~ inspired by Vanessa Curley)
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