It doesn’t take a plane, train, or a boat to get lost or get back home. It just takes a change of mind.
Every country goes through a whirlwind of crises. It doesn’t have to take nature on its usual centuries old course to wreak havoc on a nation, its structures, and its systems. We are our own “force/s of nature.” Everything has a cause and effect. Not knowing Who we are as a race is a crisis enough to leave a wake of consequences from actions taken without much thought. It would take a forensic examiner to figure out where which starts and ends.
Just like any disaster’s aftermath, we are left to salvage the pieces and rebuild again. It’s a never endless cycle of building and rebuilding because we have lost sight of our identity, our foundations. We have become satisfied somewhat with the temporary, with the convenient, and what’s expedient. We have left the rest of the world to define us with their colored glasses. And by the way, I’m also guilty of buying it and wearing them too.
For foundations to last and stand strong, it needs the builder’s resolve to follow the architecture (DNA) of the structure. He needs to be focused in mind and courageous at heart to build with resolve. If he sees any flaws, he is not afraid to speak up and stand up in the single-minded pursuit of nothing else but following the grand design. How else can you make a home when the builder’s heart is not in it?
We are lost. We are on this yellow brick road and we are only aware of who we are and where we’re headed (even that is still uncertain). To be fully conscious of who God designed us to be. To truly know our nation’s heritage and legacy, we have to wake up and realize what we have lost. Like the proverbial Dorothy and her friends, we have to “go back home”, get our hearts (Tinman), our minds (Scarecrow), and our courage and voices (Lion) back.
Just like the wizard, most if not all of our leaders need to step down from their balloons and show their true face behind all the “magic” and “illusion”. We may have put them where they are for sentimental reasons, or by reasons of popularity, but their carefully contrived words and press releases are just smoke and mirrors. They need to wake up themselves and lead us out of the circus of which we have become the main attraction. They have to realize humility is part and parcel of leadership in order to face the facts and slay our goliaths.
Not all is lost. Not all are lost. There are those who’ve been paving new roads and new directions leading us back to our grand design. Their voices may be small, they may seem like few, but nevertheless as long as we sift carefully what we listen to and what we look at, we can give them hope to go on and lead us back home.
