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Awake O Sleeper

Look around. Look into the eyes of others. What do you gaze upon? Do you see life emanating out of their eyes, or are they one of the many walking dead? How did so many of us come to be in this place of merely existing and not truly living? It's like the psalmist said, "why are you downcast, oh my soul?" So many downcast souls walking this earth. How do we awake? It's a question that's been swirling round my mind for some time now. I don't even know where i, myself, fall in this mess. Somedays my sleepy heart feels more awake than others. It's like my heart needs a good dose of black coffee to wake it up. But what is the source this coffee comes from? Is it a lover that stirs me to passion? Is it stopping for a second in this busy world and looking beyond the mundane, to the beauty around me? Is it a god coming to lift my burdens and so lifting my head, my eyes? Is it a choice of unlocking the cage this world places us in and setting my heart free? Is it a combination of all of these? To be honest, i do not know the answers to all these questions. I only know these few things. We were made for more than to be amongst the walking dead. There is one who says He came to give us life, and life to the full, and He calls out to us "Awake, O sleeper, rise from the dead". I believe that is for this moment, now. Not someday in the far too distant future. Maybe we've been in this sleepy place so long we're afraid to answer that call. Maybe we've journeyed part way to that call and became weary in our half sleepy state along the way. Maybe we were awake, and the walking dead pulled us back into their world. I do not know where you fall in this journey. I only know i hear calling even now, "Awake, O sleeper". May this be your wake up call and mine. May we begin to truly live. And may we no longer be a part of the walking dead.