My generation is fiercly loyal.
Wild horses cannot drag us from the quests to which we have bound ourselves and anything we have decided is worth our time and attention is worth an undying commitment to any bitter end.
The problem arises for my generation in discovering exactly what those things are, the things worth our lives, our attentions, our commitments.
We often appear lazy, indifferent or aimless because we are passionate without a cause.
Because we are unwilling to settle for anything less than that which taps our very souls, we would rather commit to nothing than risk having our deepest passion fail us.
For those who have taken the risk and planted their flag for a cause, the highs, lows, challenges and victories are all one in the same – because while the passion continues, the inner satisfaction is realized.
On a deeply superficial level, our happiness (our TRUE happiness) is of the utmost importance.
What differentiates us from our parent’s generation is the freedom we feel to leave a passion, a cause for something that might fit us better.
We feel no obligation to continue along a path for something which has begun to fail our passion.
For that which is untrue or has betrayed our commitment is no longer worthy of our endorsement and support.
My generation is deeply attracted to voices which have seemingly arrived or realized this truth.
They speak on our behalf and advocate for the raw, honest code by which we live.
Christianity fights an uphill battle with my generation because it speaks of intolerance.
Any principle that would speak against or forbid me access to something which might actually fulfill who I am is to be distrusted.
However, for those of us who discover the life-giving truth offered by Christ and the Gospel we find ultimately the realization of our passion.
The hope offered by salvation, the adventure of a “life abundant” and a cause worth dying for taps into the very core of my generation and delivers at last, that for which we have labored to find.
In all honesty, we need help articulating our passion.
We need options, we need go-getters to show us the options that exist.
We want to feel it, taste it, try it, let it hurt, let it pleasure and let it give life.
Don’t shelter us from the realities of the world.
Show us that which changes us and you will have given us that which will change the world.
