The FloBot Revolution...

"But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man ...We will overcome"

Recently I've been listening to the Flobot's CD and it's amazing! It has become an anthem for me right now, fueling within me a revolution of HOPE that I so desperately need! The songs are very political and social and full of meaning and pack quite a punch to the USA and what our country has done in the past and what we are becoming now. The fact that one of their hit songs "Handlebars" is on the radio is enough to give you goosebumps if you actually listen to what the song is saying. It just goes to show that there is hope that if people listen hard enough, want it badly enough, they can find and be a part of an underground insurgency for change. Much like in Jesus day when His message was being ridiculed and threatened by the religious establishment, You won't find it in many churches today and the few that have are only beginning to scratch the surface, but the revolution in all it's glory is happening behind the scenes, deep within our souls, within little communities of people in cities in states all across the country and world. If you want it badly enough you can find it and be a part of it.

These feelings of dreaming, of not giving up, not being satisfied with the status quo, wanting more, desiring change, are all coming back to me and I LOVE it! The question is will you be a part of it? Will you give into the status quo? Or will you stand up and make a statement by how you live your life, how you act, what you believe, how you treat people and talk to people, how you care about the earth, how you vote or don't vote, etc? Are you willing to go against what your family, friends, country, dare I say church, tells you is "good" or "true"? And will you follow the steps of Jesus, forgoing any common sense and resisting natural inclinations, to do what it takes to understand how He tells us to live? I mean, this is the one man who if taken seriously can actually make a difference in the world around us! Oh, and even better He actually lives within all those who claim to follow Him making it even more possible to make change! We can do this! We can bring heaven to earth! There can be PEACE, there can be FOOD for the POOR, we can END RACISM, we can FORGIVE our OPPRESSORS, we can LOVE our ENEMIES, show GRACE to the BROKEN, bring HEALING to hurting SOULS, and it can all happen now...if we believe it.

Life and all its CRAP has robbed me of this REALITY for too long and I am not going to let anything get in the way of DREAMING of seeing God's Kingdom being brought to EARTH. I will overcome. I will not be moved.

"...We shall not be moved
Except By a child with no socks and shoes
Except by a woman dying from the loss of food
Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on a cross for you
We shall not be moved
Except by a system thats rotten through
Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot
High treason now we need to prosecute

So Stand up
We shall not be moved
And we wont fight a war for fossil fuel
Its times like this that you want to plot a coo
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
So Stand up
We shall not be moved
Unless were taking a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you..."