Here’s my question: How do you touch people’s hearts and minds with deep spiritual meaning when it seems like what they want the most in the world is to get as many likes as they can on social media? I wonder how Jesus would be able to touch anyone in our modern age. For me lately, it seems like so many people around me are lost.
I have often felt like an alien living among humans, and it feels like that more and more because my mind is considering deep philosophical and spiritual issues while it seems everyone else has their minds on more material matters.
Whenever I get a new insight, I get so excited and happy because it feels like I have made a new discovery about what this life means. And I can’t remember ever feeling that excited or happy about anything else recently.
My best example is music. When I was a teenager, I just loved listening to music. There were some songs and albums that I could just listen to for hours. I felt like the singer knew my thoughts and the song released everything I was feeling inside. Now, I hear the same type of music and I know it is just a guy singing a melody trying to make a living singing his tunes. He isn’t talking to anyone or changing the world. He is just trying to be an artist and make a living. I don’t feel the excitement anymore because I know that whatever I felt as a teen was just an illusion, a shadow on a cave wall.
I guess that’s my problem. I am walking around seeing people staring at shadows and they believe that they are real, but I know they are just shadows. Whenever I discover something new in the light, it makes me so happy and excited. I love being able to understand or even being able to understand that I don’t understand. I love being able to be blinded by that light.
So, back to the question, right? How can I find a way to their hearts? They won’t believe me, if I tell them about the light and the shadows. They don’t want to know. But Jesus did say in the gospel that He spoke to them in parable hoping to reach them with His message. So, maybe if I could figure out a way to speak or write my own message, then maybe it is possible to touch their hearts. Maybe not the way I want to do it, but in the way that is God’s will.
And so, I continue to pray for God’s guidance. For even if I am some sort of alien walking among these wild and crazy humans, I know He will help me to spread His message and find a way to love them.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
