Converging for profound change

The langauge in this commentary on Hugh Hewitt’s blog is electric, especially given the story in the post below. Read the text he posts there by Randy Elrod, on the automagical world created by servant leaders who deconstruct corporate structures that slow people down when they want to reach other people. They’re totally out of anyone’s control, and yet are working better than…corporate structures.

For example, Compassion International recently asked me to help form a group of influential bloggers for a historic trip to Uganda. A trip in which we visited slums, HIV/Aids hospitals and projects each morning. We then blogged, created video, and recounted stories raw with reality and emotion each afternoon. Thousands of people around the world followed our eight day journey real-time and over 400 children were sponsored and rescued from poverty. The viral loop that was created spawned hundreds of additional posts and offered the opportunity for thousands of additional people to experience the trip in an automagical way.

I came upon this just after posting the story out of Myanmar about the tragedy of keeping people from helping people because of a paranoid controlling military junta. Comments on the NYTimes blog, among others, show how compassionate people are in wanting to find a way.

This little commentary by Elrod speaks exactly to that.

Millions of cultural creatives offer a more hopeful future(s) and are converging for profound change. This convergence is a quiet revolution without manifestos or alpha leaders. This story is one that begs ten thousand tellers and then ten times more to be inspired by it.

And wouldn’t it be great of a lot of them could mobilize some relief effort under, over or around the radar of the military junta in Burma to reach the people.