Crazy Dreams

What kind of preacher gets the “establishment” so angry that he needs to clarify, “Do not think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them”? (Matt. 5:17)  Was his preaching about comfort, meekness, mercy and purity, about being peacemakers and suffering persecution, so revolutionary that society’s bosses needed this preacher silenced to protect the status quo? What kind of leader inspires his followers to learn the art of creating change,  to be the ones who will to change the world for him? I am praying for more “crazy dreamers”, people who are willing to believe they really can change the world.  The world, the church need more people who are willing to learn the art of following that Jesus, more people like this:

Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine.
They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

(“Here’s to the Crazy Ones” by Jack Kerouac, discovered at inward/outward)