Awakening and Sowing Seeds

Those who are awakening feel this inner compulsion to be agents of awakening. This is the inner drive that motivates all people of integrity and love. It's what motivated Jesus--the very Source of it. It motivated the likes of  people as diverse as George Washington, Abe Lincoln,  Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh,  Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Eckhart Tolle, and John McCain, to name a few.  In the awakened state, we see that our survival depends on awakened human beings. So we are mindful of how we might sow the seeds of awakening--the seeds of Truth--in our sphere of influence. In Christianity, this is called "evangelizing", and it is despised by some of the unawakened. And when it is conducted without agape Love, it deserves the world's indignation. And it becomes an excuse for the unawakened to continue in darkness, since they take the easy road of defining all Christian endeavor as similarly hypocritical, something that could not be farther from the truth gained by any objective evaluation. The power that man can now draw from the earth enables him to destroy it--like a virus that, when successful, eventually destroys its own host.  In his awakened state, he can nurture, celebrate and enjoy the earth, and, more wonderfully, facilitate its healing from the damage already enacted by greed and spiritual blindness. The process of sowing seeds of awakening must be done peacefully, for the awakened can only awaken the unawakened, and the awakened state is a state of peaceful acceptance and trust in the eternal God of creation Who is Love. Only when we abide in the Spirit are we able to be true agents of awakening. This is our ongoing work--abiding in Christ Who has promised to be with us always, abide within us, and Who has "overcome the world".  It is in Him that we live and move and have our being, thus being the "Light of the world" that He has ordained and commanded[but never forced] us to be.
We pray for our world--for the human family. We pray for the exposure--to ourselves-- of the darkness within us, and for the courage to draw near to God, the only true God of this universe, Who is Love, and Who gladly drives out the darkness with Light and restores us to sanity and atonement.