A Quiet Revolution

My body wakes up on its own for one of two reasons: natural light or nine hours of sleep. This morning I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm clock, no sun in sight, and immediately wondered why. Three minutes later I received a phone call I wouldn't have heard had my eyes been shut, and sooner rather than later I was on the way to take an overslept teen to school for her Spanish exam...only after setting her up with a new alarm clock.

We think of a revolution as large, dramatic, and instant, but at its core, revolution is about transformation. Life transformation can't be cheapened into a combination of false empathy and the right amount of hype. We don't do what we do for the papers or to make our names known in history books or because the work is easy and its impact immediate. We do what we do because God, the only one who can bring true life change, has called us to it. It's not in the big moments that everyone sees and feels good about, it's in the small conversations, consistency in presence, prayers, and every day interactions that God uses to build His Kingdom in the hearts of those He brings us to. These hearts are aching for the revealing of a new way to live; for the unshakeable hope written in Christ, demonstrated in mysteriously waking up three minutes before a phone call.  

It's the quiet revolution.