The Most Innovative Thought
I woke up this morning and I stumbled my way to the dining room table. Clearly it was a God thing. My husband had a gift for me. It was a book by author Steve Chandler called “Death Wish” he had given me the night before.
He said, “I thought because of Zach you might want to read this.”
Just yesterday I was looking at my brother’s memorial picture and thinking to myself, “Am I keeping my promise? It’s not happening fast enough for me. The impact I’m making in the world isn’t big enough.” (BTW, my brother Zach died from alcoholism 3 years ago.)
Then the battle of the mind begins like a vicious cycle. What am I doing wrong? What am I not seeing? What am I pretending not to know? What do I need to do?
Of course, this morning I’m thinking a little different, but I still feel weird, like something is about to break! Oh that shaking is uncomfortable, STILL! Will I ever get accustomed to this discomfort? Will I ever welcome the grind, the battle that we feel when we’re transforming into a better version of ourself.
I still want that transition to feel like a breathe of fresh air, like I’ve just took off for flight. But, that comes a little later after you push through the resistance and our mind is ready to see something new and different. We need to be ok with whatever we’re feeling and sometimes that’s tough.
Just BEING is tough. But, this is what I know that I know that I know in my deepest core is that the greatest innovation always was and will forever be LOVE.
We are part of that beautiful plan.
“If our own mind is a desolate condemning place, there is no environment in it to thrive.”
#LoveGodLoveMeLoveHumanity . . . in that order.
In reading the first 30 pages of Steve Chandler’s book I realize how right he is. We are looking for a “feeling” of thriving. I couldn’t agree with that more. That thought brought me to am inspired revelation that the most innovative thought is love. It’s also a place where our thoughts thrive, our humanity thrives, our relationships thrive and all places that are infused with love.
The challenge is the earth realm is tainted. Still love can be applied to every place that matters.
The Bible says, where there is love, there is freedom. I believe that, but I personally don’t control every sphere of influence. I can only dedicate my life to that which I believe in the long run can be hugely impactful for what I was designed for. . .healing the nations one leader and one movement at a time.
I know I’m oversimplifying because the complexities of a broken city, a broken world, a broken nation or a broken religion is too complex to TEDTalk our way out. But, can we love our way out?
Can we just love along the journey?
I’m asking different questions and I see evidence that other leaders are as well. That’s at least a breathe of fresh air in the midst of chaos and uncertainty.
If we love in every place where we live and breath and influence consistently can it change the course of things? This is what I know, if we rise up enough leaders, enough movements that have roots of the greatest innovation known to man, which I believe is LOVE . . .isn’t it possible that we increase the odds in the favor of better cities, better systems, a better nation and a better globe?
Call LOVE as the solution a scientific experiment or a radical or juvenile notion, it’s a challenge that at least causes a desire in us to feel a sense of thriving, rather than desolation, hopelessness or despair.
Committing to love rather than conforming to broken things is a positive force thrusting us forward into the unknown world of resistance. Still infusing love into culture and systems is a challenge worth pursuing.
“We need to create an environment inside ourselves of love if we want to thrive and grow.”
Somewhere along the way, someone or something will profoundly change and create a ripple of freedom or at minimum a braver conversation.
Along the journey of playing a bigger game of life and love, someone or some power has spent years, if not decades, creating systems that weren’t really based on love, but rather a false sense of power for just a few.
Some would say we were looking for solutions or reacting in the moment to war, chaos and hate? That would be another potentially great TEDTalk. How did we get here?
“If innovation comes from seeing the needs of humanity and society before they occur, then love has go to be the greatest innovation.”
We exist because of it. It existed before this world and it will exist after.
Between now and then I believe we have to go beyond creating movements to creating a love revolution like the world has never seen or experienced in this generation or even the one before.
That’s a braver conversation, an effort, a challenge, a global revolution that’s coming and it’s not because of you or me, but it’s because the war for love is going to take over and it’s imminent.
That’s flippin’ amazing news!
We can bring healing to the nations if we’ll create braver conversations, raise up leaders who are infused with God’s power, raise the bar for leadership and look for ways to set the captives free. Every truly good creation started with the desire to see love fulfilled and every thriving environment will live and grow.
