The Outlaw Preachers (#outlawpreachers) have a great practice known simply as Grace Bombs.
Essentially, when someone’s hurting, feeling down, needing a hand to hold or a shoulder to cry on, everyone’s invited to record a short video or voice mail and the messages are collected and sent directly to that person ASAP.
Grace Bombs can also take the shape of a Flash Mob of Love via Twitter — with a mass of messages of encouragement directed towards individuals in need.
Imagine if all the Insurgents of Love put our heads together and found ways of putting Grace Bombs into mass production.
Imagine a world in which the US Air Force dropped Grace Bombs on people instead of bombs of destruction…
Weapons of Mass Beauty instead of Weapons of Mass Destruction…
Imagine weapons literally turned into plow shares…
Where instead of launching destructive explosives towards our enemies, we launched guerrilla gardening seed bombs, filled with roses, dandelions or sustainable crops to nourish the bellies of those in need…
Imagine a world where instead of destroying homes we dropped Crayola Bombs on villages and cities…
As Liz Dyer quoted…
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air — explode softly — and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either — not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. – Robert Fulghum
Or as Potterarchy said on Twitter:
Bringing love to the world, one Robin’s Egg Blue at a time.
Beautiful!
What a way to to turn empires upside down!
If you were put in charge of the military’s new Grace Bomb project, what would you include in the Grace Bombs?
What would war look like if it was led by Insurgents of Love?
Jonathan – I just now saw this post. I’m so glad that you took the quote I had found and used it. I thought it was a beautiful quote – I love the imagery it conjures up – and love to see it getting passed around.