I was listening to a podcast over the last few days and somewhere in the middle of it the participants drew a visual picture for the listening audience of what they believe raising our collective consciousness looks like. Basically they said to take a table that is covered in bubbles. When one bubble starts to move it immediately affects those around it and then the ripples of change start. So when someone like Martin Luther King rises up out of the bubble pile there is an amazing impact even if his time was cut short.
I really like that picture and it makes incredible sense. The question I have though is whether or not us bubbles really want to be disturbed? Do we want the pressure that comes with it? Do we even really want change? Do we just want to ride it out and hopefully not be affected by any other crazy bubbles until it is our time to pop?
Even with this blog there is a certain type of pressure to make sure I live in line with what I am putting into words. Heck that comes with the religious and spiritual side of things that I outspokenly align myself with. Really that pressure comes with simply being a man. Then you add-on marriage and fatherhood and we are talking as much pressure as a mountain dew can rolling around in a teenagers trunk.
It is time that we all start answering the bell, myself included. The few principles that we have already spoken about should be at play in every aspect of our lives regardless of who is watching. That is the only way to develop those principles into second nature habits.
I believe that I am ready to be the bubble that moves... I want to affect other bubbles... I want to be the start of a ripple.
I know without a doubt that we can start something huge, something real and visceral. It is needed in our society. Do not be afraid of the pressure because that is already there be afraid of not doing anything before you pop.
We should never choose the easy path because the easy path is not the path of the warrior. You know Jesus, right? The single greatest bubble in history. Look to Him, read His words and you will see the blueprint of how a bubble should float and how to interact with the bubbles around you.