How To Change The World Poem by Michelle Rainey

As I look around the room I see many different people, each is unique and different in their own ways. They are all built with different characteristics, different traits. They do not look exactly alike; they do not act exactly alike. They have different personalities and different ways of thinking, but they are made in the same image, the image of God. The emotions and feelings that consist inside this room, inside these people are so innumerable it would be impossible to list them all. Yet the emotion they long to feel is love. They each want to love, and they each want to be loved.

As life goes on people leave, people die. But when they leave, what is it that they have left behind? I asked myself the other day, “If I were to die today what would I leave behind? ” I realized that if something happened to me and I didn’t make it out alive, that I could possibly leave nothing behind, and this upset me.

That night as I lay in bed I thought and thought until I realized something, it’s not just what I want to leave behind, but also it’s what I want to take with me. I figured out that if I took something of the highest value with me, people would see it and want to do the same. I created my answer. I decided that I would take people, and by doing that, I would leave the urge for other’s to take people as well. By taking people I don’t mean physically, but spiritually. I wanted to change people’s lives so that in the end, we will be in the same spiritual realm, Heaven.

I had a friend who ended her life and during her life, she impacted many people as she had done after her life was over, and this upset me. She changed so many others during her almost sixteen years of life, and she ended it; she can’t change any more lives besides the few who were impacted by her death. I want to be different. I want to live my life till it is time for me to die because the longer I am here, the more lives I can change and transform into something better. When I die, I want to leave my mark on others hearts so that they themselves will change, and so that they themselves will be compelled to do the same as I had done and would go out into this room, into this world and change the lives of others.

I want to go and tell others of Jesus and how he has saved by soul. I want to love on them with all of myself so that they will not only feel loved, but that they will be compelled to do the same, creating the same reaction to that other person and creating a “love chain.” It is important to love everyone, even those you don’t know. To love others is to accept others, to appreciate them, to care for them, to feel for them. Corinthians 13: 4-7 tells us, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” Love is important, but there is more to love than just feeling it.

To love others is different than loving on others. Loving on others is not just feeling the love for them, but showing it. Loving on others is when they struggle, to help them even if it means going out of one’s way, to encourage them when they are down and encourage them to do good and make the right choice, to be honest, to be compassionate, to be the one to stand up for them, to be loyal, and to show God’s love through one’s actions so they will see it and want to love on others too. I want to be passionate about loving others and about loving on others, because by feeling love and showing love to all people, I will be starting a chain of change.

Today I walked into a room and could instantly tell that people were dying emotionally and spiritually. So many are hurting; so many are in pain; so many need a hand to help them up. These people were my age and they were already beginning to rot away and their lives had already begun disintegrating into nothing. Some of them seem to be happy, but I know they are acting, I know that they are wearing a mask. It can be impossible to tell sometimes which people are acting and which people are not. But if we love on all people, then there is no need to try to figure out if someone is wearing a mask and what that mask is hiding, because they may start to take it off themselves and let their true selves be open and free. No human wants to wear a mask, we don’t want to wear a mask, but sometimes it can be easier to go through life with one because that way if anyone is judging us, saying nasty things about us, or hurting us in some sort of way, it won’t be because of who we truly are, but because of the role that we are playing. We want to protect who we truly are because if our true self is criticized then we have to say, it’s me, myself, and I that they hate, and living with those thoughts trapped in our minds can tear us to shreds. This is why love is so important, because with love there is no need for a mask, no need for protection, because with love there is nothing to hurt one’s true self. So I am going to take off my mask. I am going to risk being ridiculed by others because if I take off my mask, I can show everyone the truth, show that my love is sincere, not just some cheap mask, but the real thing.

When I die, I will be embracing God. When I die, I want this room to be embracing God. When I die, I want this world to be embracing God. The more people I love on, the more lives that I will change, and the more people who will be embracing God with me. So when I die one day, I will take people with me, and by doing that, I will leave the urge for other’s to take people with them as well. But for today I will begin to love others. Today I will begin to love on others. Today I will begin to change the world.