Blowin' in the Wind

In my recent spike in political interest I started to focus on the wrong solution(but with good intentions of course). I started putting my faith into governing bodies in the form of an individual candidate that true authentic change for the better could happen. Not that one person can't bring change for the better, but that the means through which that change is brought by the individual is the key to what my focus should be on. What I mean be this is putting my faith and energies into a changing wind. Here is a powerful image by Jim Wallis to hep convey this idea: 

"If we look back, we realize that political systems(not to mention business, military, and even religious systems) have, in spite of their high ideals and noble ambitions, frequently been driven by the winds of expediency, self-interest, fear, greed, and pressure. So, looking around today, we see politicians wetting their fingers and raising them to see which way the political wind is blowing-to see what voters want so they can remain popular, raise donations, and secure reelection. Wisdom and honesty tell us that we aren't going to change politicians much in the future. They're always going to be wetting their fingers and testing the wind. So, Jims says, there's only one hope: we're going to have to change the wind.

 Changing the wind would mean changing public opinion, which requires changing the values that guide people individually and as groups, which in turn requires changing the vision of what is both possible and desirable, which ultimately means changing our framing story. In other words, changing the wind means doubting, rejecting, and defecting from our old framing stories, and instead, discovering and adopting-in a word, believing- a new framing story. That, once again, is exactly where I believe Jesus steps into human affairs, challenging us simply to believe his good news (Mark 1:15), and to believe him as the bearer of that good news (John 6:29, 35; 7:38; 10:37; 14:1)."