Send up the Bat Signal
Spring came early this year. In fits and starts and freezes. We had a spring break week that started Monday with -10 degree wind chills and ended up with a 90 degree Saturday. Eight tornados in the area in April. The extreme weather matches the extreme politics and the extreme lifestyles that parade by on social media, often with extreme plastic surgery that I would be more likely to pay someone to undo if it happened to me.
It feels a little like we’re in the middle of a superhero movie – some kind of Marvel universe where everything is oversized and exaggerated and extreme. I, like others I’m sure, keep looking around hoping some great voice of sanity will enter the picture to guide us all. Some eloquent man or woman who can boom out some common sense. To keep with the analogy, they’d probably have to appear in an extreme superhero costume that they whipped up after being bitten by a spider ( well, that one is taken…they’d have to be bitten by something else…) for us to recognize them at this point (maybe they’ll be in an inflatable frog suit?)
This week I saw an image on social media of four women holding a banner that says, ” We are the ones we have been waiting for”. And it made me realize that it’s time to write the script for a different kind of superhero movie…one that tells the story of not just one person responding to the bat signal. But everyone. LR Knost said it most eloquently:
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things can be mended.
Not by time, as they say, but with intention.
So, go.
Love intentionally,
Extravagantly.
Unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
L.R.Knost
Heavenly Father – thank you for the beauty of the spring days between the storms. For the flowers that refuse to hide from the wind and weather, and for the courage to each bring our own light into the darkness.
Diana is an avid gardener who welcomes spring every year by overdoing it in her yard. Probably modeling another kind of superhero of garden care that no one would watch, if it was a movie.