definitions

The last couple of posts i've been harping on a little something called reality, and how christian culture as we know it is unable to get in touch with it, unable to change and unable to help, unable to serve. Now i've been challenged to better define what i mean here, because i may be running the risk of saying only "arr, reality! be in it, fix it! I dunno what it means but do something real!"
Okay, here's a try. I recognize that there are different realities, often overlaid upon each other. To make this concept simpler for myself to understand, try to imagine a piece of paper with three lines drawn across...one high, one mid, one low.


There. Something kind of like that. Pay no attention to the units there, that's not my drawing, i just found that and it's close enough for the mental picture.
Okay, take the top line. That's "High Reality". That's where i come from- good family, good church, immersed in more or less highbrow and rich christianity in america. Not trying to make judgement, bear with me. But this is upper segment of society. Okay, so the pros to this. We are rich, we are comfortable, we are moral, we have the potential to do much. Here are the cons. We are unable to do anything because we do not know how to be uncomfortable, we are the justifiers, we are looking out for only ourselves and those closest to us because we have blinders on-again, due to comfortablity.
Okay, now to Middle Reality (Middle Earth anyone? HA! er nevermind). Okay, so living with your head on here is often a battle and a choice. Here, we may be a bit richer and have the ability to live comfortably, but we are willing to be uncomfortable- why? because of awareness of the Low Reality, and also of the High Reality. We may be ones grown tired of High Reality, and are ready to do something to "help" the circumstances of those in Low Reality. Or we may be born into it. Or we may have somehow gotten here, through our own efforts or from another's benevolence, from low reality. This includes the people that aren't incredibly rich, but are actually doing something with their life and helping others. This includes the people that could be making the tops in the Highest Fringes of High Reality, but are choosing to be lower, choosing to live where they live and give away more than seems reasonable. Why? Many reasons. But i want to live here, in Middle Reality, because if i call myself a christian, one who loves all people as christ does, it brings me closer to all people, both the Highers and the Lowers. it allows me to get my hands dirty, and there's not as much of a stigma associated with involvment in "liberal" social justice here. Really for me it's more awareness of everything that's going on in the world, and the pressure to perform is down. I don't have to live with the acheivement mindset involved in High Reality.
Now to Low Reality. I mean people in projects, i mean homeless people. Hungry people. War-torn people. Addicted people. Low Reality is again defined in where you live and what your social status is. These really are the people that need help. Perhaps they are good people and love Jesus and just need a chance for better circumstance. Maybe they really are messed up spiritually and mentally and need us to love them without much hope of gaining anything out of it. But these are the ones Christ went to...he loved even when rejected. These are the ones i want to learn to love.
There are also fringe realities, such as Uber-High, celebrities, Trumps, ect. There are also Uber-Lows, such as lepers in Calcutta.
What i mean by doing somehthing real is getting into the low and helping those in need. I mean actually sacrifice something. I mean make yourself uncomfortable. I mean don't just throw your money at poverty and suffering. Throw your heart into it. Get messy every now and then. Be involved in something bigger than you. I'm going to try. I know i'm still in the thinking and feeling phase of this. Specific actions in this regard are few, but they do exist. More on social justice later.