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Jim Diffin <Jim_D_>

"Revolutionaries...dreaming once again..."

	Do you care if I don't know what to say...?	773 days ago
	I wanted to write a blog, but no thoughts popped into my head as to what I could write it about. So, I just started typing hoping for some sort of a "hobbit genesis" experience. You see Tolkien had the same problem, he wanted to write; to produce some form of literature which would give the average joe on the street even the faintest idea of what it was like for him in the trenches of World War One. An epic great-war novel was, however, never born. Rather, he began writing about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins and so one of the greatest pieces of literature was concieved. Keep reading... One of my favourite bands; Angels and Airwaves releases their second studio album in November and I am so exited. I was listening to a couple of the pre-release promo tracks and I was blown away. Angels and Airwaves have this awesome way of writing songs which I can only describe as spiritual. Read these lyrics from one of their new songs called "Secret Crowds"; If I had my own world I'd show you the life that's inside it The way that it glows when you find it The way it survives with it's families, Friends or it's enemies Let me feel you, carry you higher Watch our words spread hope like fire Secret crowds rise up and gather Hear your voices sing back louder Isn't that just amazing. The tag line for my bebo page is a quote from Pete Greigs' "Vision" which he included in his book on twenty-four seven prayer called "Red Moon Rising." It reads "Revolutionaries, dreaming once again." If your reading this blog, let that challenge you, just as it is challenging me in its writing. Just how much of a revolutionary are you? I actually mean this in two ways. The first is a challenge not dissimilar to that I offered in my last blog about the state of evangelical christianity. The second is not something which you have to be a Christian to understand, its just a general call to society as a whole. Please read both. You see, I often wander just how much of a revolutionary I am. Bruce Kuhn, a west-end performer and headliner of plays like Les Miserables now travels the world performing his one-man dramatisation of Luke's Gospel in the King James translation. He told the audience at his last show in Belfast that when performing somewhere in Asia (I think) his performance had to be advertised as being particularly coersive and bear warnings about the serious danger it represented. "Isn't it great," he said. "How wonderful is it to know that our faith is Dangerous!" This is what it is to be a revolutionary. This is what struck me about the lyrics of the song. Imagine, if you will, a hall full of people who do not believe in the hope brought by the Cross of Christ. Imagine, then, a man bringing a message; the gospel of Luke; the gospel of Truth. Society considers this message dangerous, like a fire. As the man brings that gospel message, the fire catches. Brothers and Sisters in Christ across the world bring this message to a people lost. "Watch our words spread hope like fire, Secret crowds rise up and gather, Hear your voices sing back louder" They sing back louder; praise to an awesome God; in one unanimous voice calling out "Amen." Imagine that...Dream that, if you will. Smiling yet? "Revolutionaries, dreaming once again." What if I'm not called to be a missionary? What if I'm not a Christian at all...? Well, you can still advocate a change. Just because I constantly dream about spiritual things doesn't mean that you have to. Tom Paine had a revolutionary dream...a dream that no ruler had the right to control a people who had no democratic influence in their election. Some historians credit Paine as the fore-runner of The American War of Independance, The French Revolution and The United Irishmen. Martin Luther King had a revolutionary dream...a dream of equality, of unity, of peace. Would the world be the same place today without King's dream? In my very first bebo blog, I suggested that we not become sheep; part of a generic human group with the same thoughts and actions. Don't sink into the crowd and let it supress the person you are inside. Consider your destiny. Maybe you believe your destiny is inspired by God, maybe you don't and maybe you don't believe in destiny at all. One thing is for sure, you will end up being "someone," and you have the potential to make that person great. Whether that means that you cure cancer, become a leader of nations, become an orrator of ideals or just be the person who puts their hand on the shoulder of another person and says "hey, it's going to be ok;" each of these is great in their own right. To bring us full cirle to Tolkien; "...become the person you were born to be." Have an opinion and voice it. Have an idea and make it reality. Have a plan and impliment it... ...Have a dream and live it.
	posted by Jim Diffin

2 Comments:

	Ian Montgomery said...	772 days ago
	My own mantra is pretty much to life as ambitiously as I can, even if I'm not sure where that ambition is ultimately going to lead. It's like taking the scenic route
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	William Robinson said...	772 days ago
	Think you succeeded with the "Hobbit Genesis" effect, the post is worthy of "blog" status. That some good musing there Jim.
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