Together We Rise
cbr, 2025 - #nowplaying - Flobots - handlebars
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We can plant a tiny seed in broken soil and watch it defy darkness, stretching toward light—our hands, once empty, now creators of life and possibility.
We can sit beside the wounded without turning away, offering not just bandages but presence—bearing witness to pain that transforms both healer and healed.
We can let ancient Words seep into our bones until they illuminate us from within, Scripture no longer just text but living breath coursing through our veins.
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"—Philippians 4:13 becomes not just quote but lived experience.
We can nourish empty stomachs and clothe shivering bodies, seeing not projects but people—each face a mirror reflecting our shared humanity, our intertwined destinies.
We can dismantle walls of division and build doorways of reconciliation where enemies become friends—where "us" and "them" dissolves into "we."
We can embody the revolution we've been waiting for, our very lives becoming protest and prayer.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"—Matthew 22:39 whispered not just from lips but lived through hands that serve.
We can traverse oceans of indifference, constructing bridges of understanding over troubled waters—each plank laid with intention, each nail driven with hope.
We can scale mountains of impossibility, our fingernails dirty, our muscles aching, reaching summits that skeptics said couldn't be climbed.
We can speak truth that makes power tremble, our voices steady even when our knees aren't.
"The truth shall set you free"—John 8:32 becomes our battle cry against systems of oppression.
We can stand in unbroken circle, fingers interlaced like roots underground—strength not in uniformity but in our beautiful differences united.
We can be candles in a world grown cold, offering light not because darkness deserves it, but because that's what light was created to do.
"Let your light shine before others"—Matthew 5:16 not as performance but as purpose fulfilled.
We can reshape reality with calloused hands and persistent hearts, not accepting the world as it is but reimagining what it could be.
We can rise above the gravity of doubt and fear, not because we're weightless but because our burdens are shared.
"We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us"—Romans 8:37 becoming not just hope but experience.
Together we rise, not as individuals seeking glory,
Together we soar, not to escape but to gain perspective,
Together with faith that's been tested in fire,
We can do so much more than we ever dared dream possible.
Those moments when you feel small? They're lies. Your capacity for impact is immeasurable.
Stay curious. Stay humble. Stay connected.
— Mitchell Royel