To Change A World

“It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” – Pope St. John Paul II.

We can no more deny that this was a saint among us than that we need air to breathe. He was a holy man of God, and his words usually fell always this powerfully upon the heart. See, with the current state of the nation, the upcoming vote, the ignorance of love, the lack of faith, and the mass confusion that follows it, we as a people are so lost in the world that we don’t even know where to start. We have become complacent, as we look to others to fix the world’s problems.

Here would be the problem with that philosophy: if everyone waits on the other to fix the problem, that logically means that no one is going to do anything. Dominos won’t start to tumble till a force acts upon it. Once again, logic and truth destroy that happy little bubble everyone likes to live in. But people, it’s time to wake up. We face tragedy and tragedy again saying that evil is acting in the world. It’s true, we are in the heat of the battle between good and evil, and being complacent is, I don’t wish to make your world come crashing down, but it’s picking a side.

We are called to be soldiers for Christ. We are called to defend life, love, and our faith. Saints did not become saints by taking the easy road; they became saints by taking the road far less traveled – the road of discomfort, of being shunned, of being unhappy in the flesh and joyful in the spirit. We can’t afford to sit back any longer. We are being stirred to act.

It’s going to be hard, because acting means we have to give up some of our time to Christ. It’s going to be long, because we have to educate ourselves in the happenings and in the defenses. It’s going to hurt, because we are going to be told that we are hateful, overbearing, freakish, and wrong. And it’s going to be personal, because we can’t change a world without changing ourselves.

We are the generation that brings this upon ourselves, and we have to be the generation to fix it. God help us all, and have mercy on us in His Divine Mercy. May he give us the strength and the faith to move mountains.