Anyway you look at it, it's broken.

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I sit here this morning, the day before Thanksgiving. 

Thanksgiving was actually a time that was actually created after some dark historical roots of pilgrimage. Now I obviously don't boast in the reasons why Thanksgiving was created, however I do myself enjoy giving back thanks for the things in my life that God has provided and put his provision over. I bring this reason up because as I sit here looking at my Facebook news-feed or if I turn on the news I am hit in the face and in the gut with a panoramic view of a complete and utter display of a broken world. I sit and gasp at the horror of the things going on around us and the people it is affecting. In every acting party involved in the current of events that are taking place closely to home we all have something to be upset about. I am not here to speak on those behalves, but I do want to ask what part you are playing a role in? In all curiosity, I find the most interesting thing that the one thing we preach is unity but in that we find ourselves separating even more further apart. It's disheartening and quite honestly makes me want to curl up into a ball and wait for all of this to pass.

But as I sit here this morning, the day before Thanksgiving;

I see that in all reality nothing has changed even since the times of our historical roots back to our own pilgrimage. So whats the answer? Where do we as the HUMAN race make the change. Knowingly, I can't see or know the answer. However I do know that the relationships around me are built not on someones social standard, their looks, or their where they live. I know that my relationships are built off of one thing. My relationship with Christ has formed each and every relationship I have ever made. We are only here for such a short period of time that it sounds SO cliche however you better know dang well that I am going to meet and impact while being impacted on as many people I can while I am here giving it every last drop of every last ounce of energy I have. Because if not, WHATS THE POINT? I will not fight for anything short of love. Stand up where there is injustice, yes, BUT the greatest injustice you can have on yourself and your world is rejecting the unity of the one of the most powerful assets we have in this broken world, which is each other. This could go on forever, but in the spirit of my Thanksgiving I'm praying for this broken world. It wont ever be whole until the end, but I am praying for the opportunity to just make one whole difference at a time.

So as I sit here this morning, the day before Thanksgiving;

I am thankful for the different flavors in my life, I am thankful for my amazing broken family that has brought me up into who I am today, I am thankful for my beautiful city of Cleveland and the places I call home, I am thankful for the faithful followers of Christ who have kept me held to a higher standard, I am thankful for the opportunity to LOVE rather than hate, I am thankful for the freedom I have in Christ, I am thankful for the chance to share that, I have never been more thankful for my job and everything it entails, I am thankful for the fact that I have a soldier for Christ as a father/Tarzan figure. Truthfully that took me under a minute to even type and come up with. I could fill this entire page with BIG things and even just the smallest of things such as coffee to be thankful for. I challenge you that this holiday season to join me in spreading a unity. One of which that not everyone will accept, but one that you will put forward so that at the end of they day it becomes THEIR choice not yours to have that opportunity. 

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.- Psalms 147:3







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