What the World Needs Now

 Although, like Jackie DeShannon, we could use more “love, sweet love”, but that’s not where I’m asking.  I’ll let Howard Thurman, 20th Century (African) American Prophet and Mystic answer:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”  (emphasis mine).

I first read this quote several years ago and wrote it on a card I keep in my wallet.  However, it was not until today these words are making their impact.

What makes one truly alive?   Is it trying to figure out what the world supposedly “needs”?  For the most part, I think many of us are trying to do just that.  We try to “reform” and “rescue” the world-expending our energies trying to fix things.  Or we try to please others by tending to needs that they want us to fix; needs that are superficial as compared to actual.

No.  I believe we first have to look within to our God-given power and see what in us makes us truly who we are (alive).  Then to take that power, become its channel, and transform ourselves first.  There’s too much reformation going on; and too much information (if you ask me).  We need to transform.  First ourselves so we can see beyond the superfical and peer into the Divine.  Then take that directed power to transform our world by our alive-ness.  For as more people become alive, they can act as agents of change and transform.

That’s what the world needs!

Peace!