Thoughts about TRANSFORMING SOCIETY…...

I just loved this essay - so I lifted this timely section from Jon Courson, which was food to my soul, as national and global political drama continues.

TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY (excerpt from Jon's study of Luke 4:42)
Society is not transformed by people picketing, marching, or even voting. I suggest that when you study history - particularly European history - you cannot help but notice monarchs, potentates, and powers were moved by monks - men who chose lives of solitude. Withdrawing from society, they changed the face of Europe politically.
Regarding society as a shipwreck from which each individual must swim for his life, the desert fathers knew they were helpless to do any good for others as long as they themselves floundered about in the wreckage. These were men who believed that to allow oneself to drift along passively accepting the tenets and values of society was to court disaster. But once they got a foothold on solid ground, they discovered they had not only the power, but also the obligation to pull their entire culture to safety as well.  Consequently, as decades passed, philosophers and thinkers, rulers and politicians journeyed to the desert in order to hear from them and be instructed by them. Thus Europe was transformed by men who realized the best way to stand on solid ground was to spend moments, years, and decades seeking God and living a solitary life.

MY PRACTICAL APPLICATION
I feel that the greatest gift, God has given us as a stay at home, moms and wives, is time ALONE WITH HIM. Sitting at His feet, He fills our silence, forms and informs our "hearings" with His "teachings." Then He fills us with His faithfulness! Oh how we love these silent times!