You are not meant to stay here. Your time here is done.
Take a walk with me.
A walk away from this built up area with its high-rising monuments of the pathertic expressions of the power of men. A walk away from the cathedrals of consumerism that demand more than the wallets of its worshippers. A walk away from the temples of mediocrity that attract those eager for the perpetuation of systems of lack and disappointment.
Take a walk with me.
Along the pavements and roads with houses of the horrors that we have normalised. Abusive relationships – by active destruction or passive neglect. The pursuit of pleasure so distorted and corrupted that even the phrase ‘as long as they’re happy’ is an empty and meaningless gesture beyond a superficial sense of gratification.
Take a walk with me.
To this area of greenery, this place of nature where the cry of the birds is for peace, where the push and pull of the ecosystem is to grab and grasp what there is to survive.
Take a walk with me.
Beyond these areas of sorrow and look. Look ahead and see the glow. The haze of something brighter and better. Look ahead and take in the sight. Indeed, close your eyes and feel the warmth across your hands and your cheeks. Take it in and let the tears fall without hindrance. Listen to a chorus that is not about what is desired but what is experienced. Listen to the praise and celebration of what is the normal. The normal of harmony, the normal of fruitfulness, the normal of humble, constructive interactions, the normal of loving relationships, the normal of peaceful engagement. Listen to a hum and buzz that is not driven by gossip, cycnicism, speculation and mockery. Listen to a relational symphony of joy.
Open your eyes. Take it in.
Take a walk with me. Let the glow and glimmer of what you’ve embraced change you from within.
Take a walk with me. Take with you what you’ve seen not as a video or photograph. Take it as life that can be experienced now in the promise of what will be.
Whenever you lose sight of it. Whnever you’re likely to be drawn away by the slums of where you are now, remember where you took that walk. Seek it out again.
Take a walk with me.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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