Find Your Citizen Superpower
Be encouraged! Things may seem bleak in education, politics and culture, but we can look back on 2022 and see we’ve actually changed the tide in Arizona. Many of you were not involved at all in the public square a few years ago. How our lives have changed! Each of you have a powerful role on a Team to Save The World (like The Avengers)! What’s YOUR Superpower?
My claim to fame is: I’m a Regular Person who said ‘Yes’—one little step at a time. Two years ago, a friend put me on a text chain of 8 women…. 8 Regular Women. We were like-minded, busy moms, business owners, volunteers and grandparents. We complained about school curricula, masks, covid shutdowns, government overreach, and BLM riots. But then we were all asking: “What can WE DO??”
Realizing someone had to act, we said ‘Yes’. We did some homework, and we exploded the ACTION!— From 8 on a text… to over 10,000 followers—taking effective Action for Arizona every week! Other great grassroots groups have also sprung up in AZ that focus important action, and we list some on our website under each page for Education, Politics & Culture.
Maybe my Superpower is leading end encouraging people. YOU have your own story. Sometimes we forget how powerful we ‘Regular People’ really are! How even our little actions are a Superpower for transformation and revival!
What are YOU good at? What do you LIKE to do? Emails/ Research/ Hosting coffee’s/ Connecting people?... Speaking at a hearing? Check out this video of Regular People who spoke at a Scottsdale City Council meeting and stopped a building project that would have harmed the city. They used the superpower of their honest words and love of their community.
Thomas Paine had a Superpower, and he used it to salvage the American Revolution—with his pen.
In his publication, The American Crisis, Paine said: “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” (December 23, 1776)
History.com tells us that “When these phrases appeared in the pages of the Pennsylvania Journal for the first time, General George Washington’s troops were encamped on the … Delaware River. In August, they had suffered humiliating defeats and lost New York City to British troops. (Since then), 11,000 American volunteers gave up the fight and returned to their families. General Washington (feared) a revolution without an army if the rest of his men returned home when their service contracts expired on December 31. He knew that without an upswing in morale and a significant victory, the American Revolution would come to a swift and humiliating end.
“Thomas Paine was similarly astute. His Common Sense was the clarion call that began the Revolution. As Washington’s troops retreated from New York through New Jersey, Paine again rose to the challenge of literary warfare. With American Crisis, he delivered the words that would salvage the revolution.
“Washington commanded that the freshly printed pamphlet be read aloud to his dispirited men; the rousing prose had its intended effect. Reciting Paine’s impassioned words, the beleaguered troops mustered their remaining hopes for victory and crossed the icy Delaware River to defeat hung-over Hessians on Christmas night and on January 2, the British army’s best general, Earl Cornwallis, at the Battle of Princeton. With victory in New Jersey, Washington won not only two battles, but also the love and thanks of man and woman.”
Today we find ourselves in a similar battle with the odds against us and our very lives and freedom at stake. We must each look at what to DO with our own gifts, talents and resources. What if you, like General Washington, “shared” (though without a computer or smartphone) the articles and emails that inspire you? Some superpowers are writing; some might be sharing! …
Say ‘YES’ to one step today, and contribute your superpower to this worthy battle. Contact us, and we can get you connected to many other groups and actions you’re interested in!
It's up to US—the few, the proud… the Regular People… who are willing to contribute OUR small, but powerful, superpower! All the while remembering the ultimate Superpower is the love of God.