I am proud to be maladjusted
We all want to be considered well adjusted, don’t we?
And yet, like Martin Luther King Jr, there are certain things in our nation and in the world about which I am proud to be maladjusted:
that tonight millions in our country will sleep in homes made from the throw aways of others- that it takes a flood to bring to the attention of many
that a 5-year-old is raped, and the known perpetrator is still looming large, with the police doing little
that someone can treat another as less than just because of the colour of their skin or the size of their bank account (or rather lack thereof)
that many rich and powerful in our nation are not brought to book for their corrupt acts which have strangled the economy of this country and led to many going without jobs and food
The list continues.
I am proud that many others join me in this maladjusted state- not wanting to run away from these issues even though not having the answers. And knowing that having the answers is not the answer, for the power is in journeying together.
Martin Luther King Jr spoke of the need for a new organization in our world: The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment, made up of men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, ‘Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.’
Would we join such a society? Would we have the courage to discover that such justice comes not from ‘powerful’ people, but from the power of the journey… together.
