Creating a New World

I am beginning to think the “wait” and “waiting” are two of the worst and least helpful words in the English language. Even more problematic is the oft-understood connotation around this concept:

Waiting implies there is something/someone better for us…

OUT THERE!

Waiting for our beloved.
Waiting for a better job/better relationship/better house/better car/ better……everything.
Waiting for that one thing we think we want that we equally think we don’t have.
Waiting for our purpose and calling.
Waiting for success, fame, wealth, etc. etc. etc.
Waiting for societal change.
Waiting for the fall of the empire.
Waiting for the end of racism, sexism, genderism, nationalism, etc. etc. etc.
Waiting for “the Day of the Lord.”
Waiting for our savior.
Waiting for the second coming.

How much of our time do we spend hoping, dreaming, wishing, pondering, thinking, and waiting for “something better” to come into our lives and into our world. This is an especially potent question in the world of those who call themselves Christian as we are in the season of Advent – THE time of waiting.

What are we waiting for that we don’t already have right here and right now!? Jesus never promised us better days, better times, or a better humanity. Instead, he said over and over and over again that what we seek can only be found within and in THIS PRESENT MOMENT.

Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst (within and among you).”

Luke 17: 20-21

The truth that Jesus spoke is the same truth echoed by every other great spiritual leader. There is nothing outside of us worth waiting for. Everything that we are seeking can be found within. Instead of waiting, we need only turn within and there we will find exactly what we seek.

What are you waiting for? Just do it!

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The short answer is “yes” but not for what we think.

“It’s just another existential crisis Sunday…..”

This world is unwell and I feel unwell because of it. Too much conflict. Too much hatred. Too much division. Too much unnecessary……everything.

This world is too much.

Humanity has lost its humanity.

We are living on borrowed time and few seem to care.

I could scream it from the rooftops, but no one is listening.

It’s just too much.

There are thousands – perhaps millions of us crying out for change – for healing to come to our broken world, but the ongoing conflict drowns us out, and the pointing fingers of mutual blame eclipses us from view.

“Keep the people distracted and they’ll never see the real truth.”

We are NOT each other’s enemy. The enemy is as it’s always been – gluttony, the lust for power, and greed. The enemy pits us against each other so we will be too busy fighting each other to see they are stealing the world right before our eyes and from right beneath our feet.

Taking…..taking….taking…..until there is nothing left to life off of.

The irony being that as they take all we need to survive, they are also destroying themselves. A vacuum left untended will eventually collapse into itself.

We have to get this right – or our species will perish.

No wonder billionaires are building rockets to escape the hell they’ve created.

What we’ve forgotten in all these distractions is that we have a choice. In fact – this is what the enemy has done – convincing us we have no choice.

BUT WE DO!

Lauri Ann Lumby

Interdimensional Revolutionary Universal Love Activist

What are We Waiting for?