The Yanks are coming...

Endeared reader,

You are cordially invited to the first annual celebration of Colin Reale's blog. Festivities will include reading Colin's blog, and that's it. Enjoy the party.

Your fondest companion,
Scoops Callahan.


So this is my blog. I don't think I will update this very often, nor do I expect that anyone will read it very often. I really have nothing to write about at the moment that wouldn't involve exploring some very disturbing truths about the female psyche, so instead I think I will explain the meaning of the title of this blog.


Another world is possible.

Well, that implies that there is something seriously wrong with this current world. You don't have to agree with my opinion, but if you can't see that there is an extreme imbalance in the way that the world is set up then I think you need to have your eyes checked. I sit here in wonderful air conditioning typing on my personal laptop, with the television on in the background. I have had as much food as I could possibly want all week. I just drank clean water. How many people in the world could say that? What percentage of the world is as fortunate as I?

I have been given too much. But what I really want is for EVERYBODY to be given just enough. I hate the fact that people out there are in need, while we, having the resources to give them what they need, do nothing.

This is why I want another world. I want everything to change. I have had the best of what this world has to offer my entire life and I can tell you that it is SUPERFLUOUS. That's right, superfluous. The greatest joys in life aren't from things that you can buy but rather from relationships (with God, others, or yourself). I have the arrogance to have luxury, to have unnecessary things that don't even make me happy, when there are people (LOTS OF THEM) who can't even feed themselves!

This is why I want to do missions work. This is why I so often ponder the rich young ruler*, and why I pray for the guts to follow through on what Jesus asked him to do. I believe that to whom much is given, much will be expected**, and I believe that every kid out there deserves to be cared for.

I will leave you with some lines from the very song (The Revolution by Tree63) that got me started thinking about all this in the first place:

Who will feed the hungry if we don’t?
There’s people losing their lives 'cause we won’t.
If we believe but we still do not follow,
Then maybe we don’t believe.

If we could only love this world like we've been loved
Then all the world would know what love is really made of.
We live in plenty, there is more than enough
for what the world needs, but not for our greed.

Full stomachs and both parents and a church that acts like it really believes that the Good News is good news for everybody everywhere…

(^^^ Is it really so much to ask for?^^^)

Peace out, suckas!

*Matthew 19:16-26
** Luke 12:48