Change. Positive change. It might finally be afoot.

Bare with me on this one ...

I'm really not very good at putting ... "this" ... into words.

I wrote a couple of weeks ago of how I sometimes sense things before they happen. I was feeling edgy, nervous. I recognized in part it was due to the growing social unrest surrounding covid-19, but "knew" there was something bigger just over the horizon.

As we have experienced these last few days, social unrest took a huge dose of steroids and unleashed its madness upon us.

If you follow my ramblings you will know I seek different perspectives, always. I continue training myself to do this so I can better understand how people and situations impact me and seek the good in all situations.

What I was feeling a couple of weeks ago was trepidation. I was agitated, fearful and nervous about something just over the horizon.

Here's something I have learned over time ... and it goes back to my teen years at least; The very same things that bring us fear and nervousness can also generate excitement and hope within us.

That is also what I recognized I was sensing a couple of weeks ago. These past days have been tumultuous for many of us. I found myself doubting whether anything good would come from all this. After all, we have been here and done this before.

The living definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

Then something remarkable began happening this week. Amidst all the gloom of hollow narratives like BLM and white privilege being pushed new voices began to emerge to me.

You will not see or hear from these new voices in the media or even the mainstream social media. You're going to have to have an open heart, an open mind and intentionally seek out different perspectives and opinions.

God is at work among us. Always.

There is new leadership emerging and I believe that is the Blessing sent to us from this madness. Change, very positive, change is afoot.

Finally.

It is actually disgust with movements like BLM and the white privilege narrative that is driving this change. And not the expected push back from allegedly racist whites, but true, passionate anger and disgust about these things from within the black community itself.

I am going to seek opportunities to converse with these new voices. I want to learn more about their cause, a very positive cause in my estimation.

One thing they all seem to have in common is a belief, deep belief in God.

Most importantly, I want to be a part of this movement that embraces and accentuates the positives in people. A movement that encourages people to strive to better themselves and the world one day at a time. To not give control of their lives away by blaming others, but to take charge of what they can control, their own life and, yes, be the positive change they want.

We are on the verge of something really good happening. This I sense. This I want. This I will work to promote. With God's help.

Thanks be to God.