Barn Yard Blues (Let’S Make More Bricks)
Every religion has created over the years some sacred cows that should be placed on the altar and slaughtered. However, we hold on to the “limiting beliefs” of these sacred cows feeling that if we abandoned them, we’d be left with nothing. God is not a person, nor a thing: NO THING! So, maybe accepting the no-thing that would result in killing the sacred cows could lead one to the true God.
Most of the LRC community has left the security of the CHICKEN COOP!
We are EAGLES who were created to SOAR, and yet we WALK. Generations have taught us that there are great advantages to living in the chicken coop where there are regular feedings, the closeness of other chickens who believe the same thing and of course the fence that keeps the fox away. Why doesn’t anyone ask why after being fed, fed, and fattened up that no one sees those chickens again?
Where’d they go? Chicken heaven? :-)
It’s one thing to leave the chicken coop, and it’s another to meander around in the BARN YARD!
The barn yard is a scary place. You have to find food on your own, you can walk unrestricted in any direction, but the landscape is strange and at times frightening. What if the FOX comes and deceives us or kills us? What if we get lost in the barn yard? These are all fears-questions that the Hebrews had running around in the desert for decades. Weren’t we better off back in Egypt making bricks (even without straw)?
Leaving the chicken coop, the known, the safe, the familar IS scary; however, it’s also LIFE!
Too many live seventy years without really EXPERIENCING LIFE! The chicken coop is often akin to regular employment, with frequent raises, in a small office or cubicle, with medical insurance and a retirement plan. And? Furthermore, the GOOD life is lived at the expense of never experiencing the BETTER life, nor even a glimpse of the BEST life.
Once out of the chicken coop, let’s not stop at the barn yard. Get off your feet! Most are still WALKING while our destiny is to FLY. Let’s not stop short of where we’re to go, less than who we ARE. True trust and faith are in our identity which is in the DIVINE. We’re all birthed in the coop, the hood, the manger, that meager but sustaining place. Nevertheless, there comes a time when we need to get beyond the fence of doctrine, creeds, and law that hem us in.
However, to simply walk around outside those fences and stay in the barn yard isn’t the goal, it’s just a needful step towards eventually SOARING!
Where are you?
