Forever Real

 

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September 8, 2020

A thought burst onto my daily writing over the weekend.  Mentally we’ve got to remain forever real.  Seems pretty harmless.  Yet it carried a tremendous amount of weight.  What was the writer feeling at the point of receiving that which led to penning out how we need to remain forever real?  What is forever real?  Aren’t we all living it as one?  Six months ago before Covid 19 forever real had a different appeal.  Forever real is being authentic.  The hurricanes, earthquakes and fires in California are real.  We’ve seen everything before during and after.  The protests on American streets are forever real.  Same is true about this nation’s race to Election Day.  Each of these things have a presence of existence.  But we aren’t acting like they are.  Look around you!  It’s completely natural to put on the plastic candy coated bathroom mirror smile and hop through life like nothing’s changed. RollingStone Magazine released a heart wrenching story about where we are as a globe during this pandemic.  The economic changes are barely scratching the surface of reality.  It’s no longer about comparing Covid to the Spanish Flu of 1918 but rather every event where leadership, science, education and family life evolved toward history never being the same.  Mentally we’ve got to remain forever real.  In the daily writing I took the thought to a line in the sand.  If the fires earthquakes, protests and politics are physically looked upon as being real due 100% to the evidence as being truth, is that the reason why Jesus and God aren’t present in many decisions being made during this daily walk through the unexpected?  People have no problem saying to me, “You can’t prove Jesus and God exist.”  To which I replied to a friend this weekend, “You do realize the bald eagle really isn’t bald.  You also should know that dogs don’t say ruff when they’re barking.”  Which means what?  We are free to believe or not believe.  It’s all based on what is and isn’t real.  We’ve evolved into the generation that’s been given permission to rewrite history.  In time it will be written that such a choice invited tremendous injury.  We must remain forever real.  Real with the truth about Covid-19.  To stop relying on the miracle and become the miracle.  To participate with the rebuilding of peace on American streets but being fully activated in the conversations in the years that follow such unrest.  To accept the existence of being different without enforcing change by way of belief.  To equally love and respect.  To be present and not just a bystander.  Make every day a physical existence so there doesn’t have to be so many questions.  To believe in whatever part of the universe you want and still trust in the faith that got you to your avenue to continued success.  Make it real by being forever real.  Stop bending the pages of your favorite book.  There’s a story in every story.  Locate the journey without wearing rose colored glasses.