the desert road

Throw your clocks back to about 62 A.D., because i have something amazing to tell you.
Once there was this apostle named Philip. An angel of God himself visited Philip and told him he needed to go south of Jerusalem to another city called Gaza.
while on his way, Philip met an important leader of the Ethiopian queen's treasury. the Ethiopian had just come from Jerusalem where he had gone to worship and was now 'reading' the book of the Bible that we now know as Isaiah.
Philip went towards the man, as he was instructed to do by the spirit, and he asked the Ethiopian if he knew what he was reading.
this is strange considering that typically when we see someone reading, we assume they know and can understand the text in their hands. Of course they can read or they wouldn't be..reading..
WRONG-,
"How can i," the Ethiopian told Philip,"unless someone explains it to me?"(acts 8:31)
He proceeded to ask Philip to sit with him and explain what he could not himself interpret. it was a particular passage of scripture that told of the way Jesus was led as a sheep to the slaughter, silent and treated unfairly. The Ethiopian man was so deeply intrigued, one magnificent obsession a great resurrection under his skin led him to plead to Philip to please tell him who this scripture was about.
How could he know?
Philip told him "the good news is about Jesus"(8:34)
The walked together, came across water and philip assisted the ethiopian in baptised. Once the Ethiopian rose from the water, Phillip was suddenly taken away elsewhere by the spirit of God. the Ethiopian never say him again. but he didn't need to.
"When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took philip away, and the eunuch (ethiopian from the upper nile region) did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing." Rejoicing. The ethiopian had at last found his savior, all that had been in his wato y was worldly inability. See the way that didn't matter, how Philip was LED to speak to this man, to lead him, be a bridge of sorts to the Ultimate bridge to salvation: Jesus.
The Ethiopian, he simply didn't know. He simply couldn't read.
In certain parts of the world today less than 50% of the people are literate. leaving half that are not.
i find it beautiful that God does not allow minor worldly hindrances to interfere with his will nor with the calling of his chosen people. that with the gifts he pours unto us, (for example:literacy), he enables us to pour gifts unto others. he floods us with goodness to the point of overflow, so that the world may share in this sweet salvation.
He promises that whatever we ask for in prayer is OURS. suppose we each requested to be used, to be sent, to be restored to complete potential as a glorious instrument and servant of Jesus. i assure you, Our father is hungry to be invited into your life and Hungry to equip you with means to perform his glory.
promise.

the people here dont walk.
they sit in big machines.
and talk to little machines.
and almost every one has parents.
manerica, annishalty.
the people here like sitting
they like to hear other people say the things
that they wish they could say.
we like to have.

albeit

the most common lifestyle on this earth is not any such upper middle class. it is not poverty, albeit that is greatly vast. it is not romantic bohemia, it is not wealth nor venture nor disease, famine, communism, nor any other form of government or lack there of. the most common lifestyle in the world is oblivion. oblivion the great, the heavy, underlying overlying, cloud. the subscript of all opinion, statement and idea.
anyone that knows anything also doesn't know something else. that could be of equal, greater, or lesser significance.
this planet is so flawed, so wounded, and the fact that we've become comfortable with that truth just digs the knife in deeper. if you are completely okay with the way the World is, right this second-
there is something wrong with you.

i see now how guilty i am of this selfishness, blindness, and great oblivion to the way my brothers and sisters are living.
There are human beings existing in chains, they are being in bondage, living-if you can call it that- under so much constraint so much restriction for reasons that are not even their fault. know that, be aware. here on Earth there are endless things to learn and realise. We are constantly being provided with new situations to be concerned about, or things to donate and support. it's overwhelming, i know.
a friend recently told me that getting outside of ourselves, simply stepping out of our own way and routine in order to help or care for someone else is where life truly beings. We can find the truth within ourselves, but it is our duty to share it with others outside of ourselves.



'the people who are crazy enough to change the world are the ones that usually do'