Got Vision?

The same old vision, fresh every day, can still keep me awake at night.
I can’t compare it to anything we experience as humans. It burns, it gnaws away at me and I am gladly consumed by it. Nor do I care if this is all delusion — it means everything to me regardless how the world reacts.
If you’ve read as much as a half-dozen blog posts here, you know there are two primary items: (1) Hebrew worldview (“epistemology”) and (2) Hebrew morality. Just those two things would bring tectonic changes in how people live. Yes, behavioral changes, but bigger would be the internal changes in their souls that create external shifts. I don’t have a vision of how people should behave or what they believe and teach; I have a vision of people approaching all those questions from a different understanding altogether.
I was half-awake past midnight last night, sort of half-daydreaming, chasing a story line which morphed and did not make for good fiction. Somehow I was in another land, but I didn’t know where — not America. It was highly secularized despite a strong history of Christian institutions, maybe like the Netherlands with a huge sexual industry and extremely worldly without the pretense. At any rate, there seemed almost a desperate hunger for real spiritual meaning. I was sitting at a sidewalk cafe and someone started a conversation with me. Apparently my responses were radical for their experience, but it ended up a dozen or so folks simply clustered around as we discussed things I never get tired of talking about.
No, there was nothing about starting something regular, just answering questions and refusing to debate. I suppose this could only happen in a place with high urban density and a relaxed social atmosphere. It isn’t likely to ever happen anywhere near where I live. The thing that stuck in my memory was how surprisingly cerebral it all was, but even more so was the thrill of seeing just one or two here and there pick up on it.
I keep wondering how I can spread the word. Not having people agree with it, but simply having a chance to hear it and evaluate it. Convincing folks isn’t the objective; only God can do that. Please, steal my ideas, my words, whatever, but the vision is just getting the message out.

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