It's no surprise to me that I'm enjoying my friend's book on changing the world. I just don't know who I want to lend it to first once I've read it! The bit that has struck me most so far, having encountered some of his ideas before, (, I think I shared that talk here several months back) concerned his definition of peacemaking. A verb, it's far from passive (tho can be pacifist) and interestingly is not about the absence of conflict. Indeed he writes that peace makers are often accused of stirring up trouble.
And so it was that last night I dreamed of carrying 2 unexploded bombs, trying to find a relatively safe/clear space to put them before calling the police to come and detonate them. The spaces I expected to be free weren't - a crowded horse show. Some big spaces I knew wouldn't look good in the news after, if I laid it in a churchyard or school field. And I kept delaying as i knew my life wouldn't be the same after, and all along kept wondering why on earth I'd made the bomb with my friends in the first place.
Raising thorny subjects, challenging the status quo is never going to make me popular. I wonder if today I'll stick my neck out or not. Some days I do, some days I stay quiet. I already know everything I do makes a difference, I'm lucky not to have been ground down by a sense of powerlessness that I see others struggle with. But I'm not a fan of conflict despite my understanding that we are all different so will have different perspectives, and that conflict can bring around positive change.
Not sure if I'll get more book reading time today, but I will try and make time as its great tohave iinspiring people urging us onwards B-)
Journey Home much easier than the one there - phew!
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