#roguesnowflake

I was up last night messaging with a friend about things going on in the world. What price are we willing to pay for one thing, while others are striped away. Conversations like this, while not happy have given me the glimmer of a snowflake, so once again this week I was up til 1am but this time it was coming up with this.

#roguesnowflake

At first I was offended when my generation was being called snowflakes and part of the reason was because we seek social justice. My generation was heavily taught that in school and in TV growing up and now we are adults and are not giving up those lessons. I get that there are other reasons why we have been called snowflakes, and while it still annoyed me that it is the generation that raised us that is calling us this, I am going to embrace it.

Yesterday was also Holocaust remembrance day and all week I have been struggling to shake the thoughts of what happened during the Holocaust to people with disabilities. All that plays in my head is "what if that happened to my kids."

So this is where the #roguesnowflake project is coming in.

I am going to be a #roguesnowflake. I am going to strive to do the right thing even when others don't. I am going to cause avalanches of change for the better by the way I live my life and the things I do.

What is a #roguesnowflake:

-Using LOVE as a communication tool. Love first, questions later.
-Loving people and building relationships with them in such a way that they see God's love. Investing in people continuously.
-Acts of service to help people.
-Seeking new ways to help others
-Asking why someone is doing something before judging

What is not a #roguesnowflake:

-Hateful speech or actions
-Yelling, screaming or calling names
-excluding others because of differences, Jesus ate with tax collectors and talked to a women at the well, if we want people to see God, then we need to love them.

Being a #roguesnowflake just takes doing everyday things to love people. Not some big show, not some big corporate project, love. Loving people.

I see people say all the time that gun violence is not going to be stopped with gun laws (thats a debate for a different day) but if that is the logic we are using then rape, murder, crime, parent less children and many other things are not going to be stopped with law (while I fully believe laws on these things are good and right for a functional society) what is going to stop them is love. People's actions come from something. If we love people the cycles of pain stop holding as tight of a grip on their life.

So I blogged about my first #roguesnowflake event yesterday and I would love for you to join me in that, and I will keep coming up with things to do to love others, but also if you are a reader of this blog I challenge you to be a #roguesnowflake too. Use the hashtag to talk about things that you are doing for others, cause I can't change the world myself, but I can be a snowflake that loves people, and that beauty of genuine caring will cause avalanches. Lets make a blizzard.... are you in? Share with others, because sometimes it gets hard and our minds and hearts get heavy, but seeing other #roguesnowflakes around you helps to push you forward.