As William Gibson says “The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”

I have sensed the same thing – the shift has already happened – modern to post-modern to ??? – we just don’t have eyes to see or a vocabulary to name it. Many people are writing and speaking about this and yet…how do we help others have eyes to see it?

When I read this, it resonated with how I have been feeling

Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the 21st Century Keynote Address, The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership annual conference, June 1999 – Margaret J. Wheatley

There was a geologist being interviewed. He was a beach geologist, so his field of study was beaches and sand and the like. And at the time he was being interviewed, there was a storm. One of the large hurricanes was pounding the outer bank off the Carolinas. And he was being interviewed about what hurricanes do to beaches. Now, we all know what hurricanes do to beaches and beach houses and such. We feel they’re very destructive, right? They destroy homes and take down power lines and take away even sand, and whole beaches disappear in a hurricane. So this interviewer was talking to this beach geologist about this hurricane going on. And then the geologist said, “You know I can’t wait to get out on those beaches again once these storms have passed. And I hope to get out there in the next 24 hours.” And the interviewer said, “What do you expect to find out there?” and I was listening, and I thought he was going to talk about all the destruction he was going to find. What he said really surprised me.

He said, “I expect to find a new beach.”

Now wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could be in the same relationship with life as that beach geologist, where we would look for newness rather than predictability, where we would look to see what just happened rather than agonize that what we wanted didn’t happen?

We, humans don’t like change – or at least we hold onto the old ways as long as we can. We cannot know the mind of God – and yet we continue to try to put God in a box. He doesn’t fit nor does he like it.

We have been in the midst of a hurricane for a while – it feels like it is settling down – I’m ready to run to the beach and see what God has done. Are you?