Moe and I have loved this movie called The Power of One. I think what strikes me is when the main guy is a little boy who lives in South Africa during WWII. He loses his father, mother and is put in a German school where they hate him. His only friend is a chicken an African gave him. The German kids kill it. Anyway. He speaks often of the "Lonely Birds". He is a lonely kid who in the end makes a difference as a man. He loses everything but then instead of taking a college scholarship and gaining success, he runs off to teach the Africans how to read and write.
I am beginning to wonder if people who do great things have "Lonely Birds". To lead something that is different and will challenge people, some will actually hate you, puts you in a lonely place. Maybe the loses he suffered also prepared him. I don't believe God creates the loss to make us stronger but maybe He uses our losses to strengthen us to pave a new direction and challlenge the status quo. Maybe he uses our pain to move us to a place where we give from a brokeness that comes from suffering.
Maybe we are to be come friends with the "Lonely Birds", so we don't live to please man? Just thinking.......
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