“35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 41 Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?” 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.” (Lk 12:35–48 ESV)

Solo flying and suddenly our craft is touched down, surrounded by people, lights, and action. Where were we all those solo years? Where were our lean years as standing versus our bountiful ones? Did it take patience for that age-old nemesis Lucifer to have their own “reintegration moment”, “touch down”, coming to the light? 

It is very holy to stay Firm that our craft will succeed, the War will go to the bearers of Christ’s Name, whether now or on the Final Day of Justice, Judgment. Our craft need not go responsive to spirits well beneath its cruising altitude, though they argue that theirs is the True Nationalism, the National Project (oh, did you see some sort of violence in art, and conclude it was precedent?). But nothing catty, we are possessed by a Jubilant Spirit called Christ.

That sudden engulfing in Community, benign Judgment, Coming Home to Mama, Papa, is an experience worthy of all our best self-confident knowledge: we will win this one in the end. Always do, right? Only what if… what if it is those benign and sharing, those who advocate for civil society, civil rights, equal justice under the law, for healing… that these will prove to have been the fools…

There lies our disagreement, because we do not concede, our upper lip is stiff, that any project should be shelved if it proves too holy, if it proves susceptible to the rabble, to nipping at the heels but magnified ten-fold: cruise control unto Destruction, an enemy has done this!

Something in us lies Eternal, because we had the audacity, the giftedness, to fight for the good Cause. Called Christ With Us. In this we found elevated levels of Peace, Rest, Calmed Souls. It was truly ours to own, while an enemy was blind to all but Might Makes Right, to “vote for me, I have the necessary oomph, the requisite violence, the crimes against humanity”. Human frailty a doctrine easily overlooked: we are Frail, we look for any and all ways to demote our would-be enemies, not even realizing our own blase Crimes.

And to the urge, the patient Desire, to speak the Right Word, to know the Right Angle to take, to Abide in the currents of Success, His success now ours to begin to eek our way through, to needle through. Only He wants three-dimensional Followers, not just cookie cutter mimicked ones, but Self-Contained, Actionable Soldiers. Who have a sheen, a halo all their own, a glow most divine, because they are Living Into Christ With Us. They are literally experiencing on behalf of all humankind, the Truth to the Christ story. Christ is real, and insofar as we are partakers, on some level it is a blood-of-my-blood, flesh-of-my-flesh we are experiential on behalf of a shared Body and Mind. God is working together a Corpus of Actions, and we are Community and Shared Spirit. Therefore balderdash to those who would mock and humiliate, denigrate and malign, a right straight member of their own flesh. But we have the mind of Christ. And His battles for us, though seeming simple, are right at our level, so that come tomorrow, we may reflect: that was a Christian battle and experience I walked through. Christ… did He hold my hand? Not quite, rather prayed and died for me, in the Hope some inkling would adhere to me. Some peaceful junction would be attained. Some together Mindset would prevail.