The philosophical definition of change

We’ve been hearing a lot about change, but what does it mean? The dictionary says to make something different, alter, reshape, or transform, but is that enough? Is that what it really means? It sounds like the dictionary is talking about a thing rather then people. When you talk about changing people, then it’s philosophical. So, I’m going to try and explain using some of my teachings what change is to people so it’s not a fairy tale like some have said in this presidential campaign.

In order to have change something has to be identified or no change can take place. In the case of these elections, what can be identified is America’s national politics. Change is how we solve those problems. Before March this was getting boring so along came race and the ratings went off the chart. We are to the point now with race that the black church is now under attack. (Case in point, we are not going to renounce or deject the black church. I don’t care what racist whites want.) Now, change has gone from issues to each other.

Most people run away from change. Many people think that by changing there can be trouble. They don’t understand that there is peace in the mitts of the change and that running away from trouble doesn’t change anything. They run away searching for peace when the peace is in the middle of change. You can’t quit in the middle of your trouble because in the mitts of that trouble there might be the greatest reward you ever had in your life. There are too many people trying to find change where there’s calm and no need for it. So for Obama supporters don’t abandon the ship, it’s just rocking. Obama is not going to quit he’s going to stand until he gets what he came for and that’s the presidency regardless of the trouble because he knows that’s why he’s running in the first place. It’s the trouble of our Nation that inspired the phrase.

Sometime change bring on turbulence, trouble, and unrest, sometime it bring on feelings that we don’t want to always identify with, but if we’re going to better our future we’ve got to disturb those presences sometime. This happens in the black church in ways that the white racist and the ignorant don’t understand.

The first step to change is desire; you’ve got to desire it in order to get it.
Do you want it? Have you ever been dealing with something in your life that you feel that you’ve been dealing with it forever? Have you ever felt so hopeless that you thought not even Jesus could fix it? Well we’ve grown accustom to those thoughts and feelings. That’s what the present administration has succeeded in making us think and tolerate for over 28 years. I’m talking about Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush just look at this country. It’s about to fall. And that’s why we need to change. We’ve got to change those things that we’ve grown accustom to, or that we’ve learned to tolerate in our Government. So ask your self, do you want your country to get well from this poor administration, do you want the voice of the people to guide government rather then government guiding the people. Do you have the desire for change? Do you really want it? How bad do you want it? When Chaney was asked, The people want an end to this war. They don’t think it’s needed any more. The answer Chaney gave was So.
Listen, when you desire the need to succeed as much as you want to breathe, that’s when you will become great and that is in the heart of Obama, because you can only attack his color and his black experience to find something slightly wrong with your desire to change. Something will always come up to sap that desire but you must fight through it and let nothing get it the way to stop this desire for change. That’s what we can and must do. “Yes we can.”

Fear will keep you from change. Our fear of change is that we don’t believe we can change. When you are afraid to change you won’t have the desire to do it. You won’t try it because of the fear of failure. You don’t believe it will work, but it will work if you have the desire to make it work. I’ve got to say here that it’s the fear of the black experience that plagues Obama’s campaign for white people right now.

We perceive the need for change as an admittance of weakness. We don’t want to admit that we’re weak, so we keep deceiving ourselves about needing to change. Change is not weak or a fairy tail. It takes courage and strength to admit the truth. It takes a strong man to admit and carry out the truth. Obama did that in his speech. He had to look at himself in the mirror and say I’ve got to confront this issue and I’ve got to tell the truth in order to convince the non knowing that my blood and soul is with them and for this country that I love no matter what my surrounding or the path I may take in order to strengthen my Ideology. It takes strength to not go around in circles making excuses for the way you are. One of the most powerful things you can do as a Christian is to judge yourself. Obama did just that and then wrote his speech.

Next, we don’t like to unsettle things in our life. Why, because we settle for mediocrity. You can’t change not wanting to stir thing up (The black church), evangelist, and motivational speakers to name a few. We will settle for mediocrity when we can have a miracle in our life. Remember your miracle is waiting for you just inside of trouble, the ruff road or uncharted water. We settle for average because we don’t get off that beaten path because of fear or admitting to weakness. Most of us live in average because we want to settle for calm things. We settle for what people tell us or show us with out question. We settle for the media to shape our thinking with propaganda and sensationalism. You know who ever shapes you thinking shapes desire. If what you think, you don’t want, change you thinking. If what you see, you don’t want, then change what you see. If what you do, you don’t want, then change what you do. Obama doesn’t like what he sees or hears going on in government for the people. He feels it’s wrong and he knows if he can rally all the people that these wrongs effect then he can bring about the change each and every one of us needs and ask for. Check yourself and desire for change. Rid yourself of weakness and don’t run away from troubled waters then you will understand Obama’s message.
Gaidi