Brian Stern

Even human life is negotiable.

And once people have lost the permanent...

They become the perfect prey for the intermediate.

And that's where we are right now.

And believe it or not, everyone in every land on planet Earth is prey.

We are all distracted by notification.

We are hypnotized by politics.

We are consumed by work.

We're buried in debt.

We're entertained to death.

We're arguing about personalities while the foundations of the world shake beneath our feet.

And yet we don't stop and say, what are we really arguing for here?

Isn't there something bigger here?

The deepest question is not whether this is the end of days.

The deepest question is, if it were the end of days, would we even notice?

Or are we all too busy scrolling, too busy branding ourselves, too busy chasing comfort, too busy treating the soul like an afterthought?

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks, and it is important that you hear me.

If there's even a possibility that this is such a time, then our conversations are absurd.

We should be talking less about who won the clip of the day war and more about whether we are right with our maker.

Less about endless outrage machine and more about repentance and forgiveness and courage and discipline and empathy and mercy.