i don't refer to myself as a pacifist. there's still too much flawed natural instinct inside me to be worthy of such a title. but i desire pacifism. i desire it for my heart, my actions, my country, the world. when given a choice, i choose pacifism. but still, right now it would be wrong for me to claim to be a pacifist because i'm still far too inconsistent, too immature. instead i consider myself a supporter of peace and a proponent for true humanity. i believe there's a better way. that we need to push thru our raw form and live better, choose better, be better than just raw. when we're kids we use our fists, when we're adults we use our words. imagine a grown adult in his or her work place resorting to kicking and biting when faced with conflict. they'd get fired! because that's insane! and yet violence is still considered a reasonable response to current world events. it's uncreative. it's unresourceful. and short-sighted. anything and everything that doesn't make the world a better place in the long term and the short term, for individuals and people groups, needs to be reconsidered and something more imaginative done instead.
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
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