Friends don’t let friends act like zombies

Here at Zombie Theology we greatly appreciate the interaction and input of others in the zombie community. We have had some great comments and interaction on facebook and twitter, but we would like to move your involvement a step further. This is why we have created the new “Field Submissions” category. This category will be entirely made up of guest submissions. These can cover any genre of writing: short stories, tips and tricks, how to’s, interesting news, poems, videos, whatever. If it relates to zombies we want to read it and share it here at Zombie Theology. If you have any ideas or questions please email us at zombietheology[at]gmail[dot]com.

The following Field Submission is brought to you by Jeremy. We met Jeremy through twitter and are excited that he wanted to write for us. You can follow him on twitter at (@JeremylovesYHWH) or facebook.

As always, we pray for your sanity and survival in these dark days…

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Friends don’t let friends act like zombies

Is decapitation always the answer?

It’s what we’re told to do, with the zombies. There is apparently no alternative once someone becomes a member of the undead to just hacking away at their brain until they slump into a motionless heap on the ground.

We have been given guns, knives…all other instruments of violence.

But what if we are doing it wrong?

What if their cries are being misinterpreted? Those moans for “brains”…what if the creepers could be brought back into the land of the living rather than simply be forsaken to a final end of blunt objects and sharpened tools?

What if our responsibility, as the living, is to guide these poor souls back to where they once stood, rather than feel our only possible choice is assign them to death?

We do it with our friends, too. We see them struggling, see them fighting the darkness of doubt and depression, and we get too worried about our own safety to risk reaching down to them and helping them up?

We are too often creatures far more intent on extending our own life that we abandon any attempts to offer that same option to those entrenched in bringing about their own demise.

It happens with zombies, and probably for good reason. At the point in which the full change is made into becoming one of the walking dead, the areas that provide joy, love, and life have been battered beyond reparation.

But what is our excuse when we give up on our friends? At even the slightest hint of darkness in their life, we flee to the comfort of what we know and where we feel safe, forgetting the importance of bringing love to all.

Our duty is to all others first, and our own second. Actually, our duty is to God first, others second, and ourselves last. In seeking to serve God, we cannot help but fall into a pattern of seeking the best for all around us, no matter their distress.

And so the question must ultimately be asked, if we catch ourselves preferring safety and comfort to helping the lives of others, how truly we are seeking to serve God.

A love for God directly results in a love for others. A desire for life directly flows into a desire for all people we care about to experience it at its fullest.

Your friends are not now zombies. They may be struggling with things that seem to be bringing them towards a life lived as if dead, but they are not altogether zombies…

…so stop treating them like they are. Or else you may, while wasting away in what you call safety, awake to find that a life spent avoiding zombies and anything that looks like them has resulted in you turning exactly into what you feared.

You have protection and ability in God. You have responsibility before God. And you have a message to bring that can break any bonds of death and darkness.

Don’t interpret sadness for shambling, or doubt for death. Meet them where they are, so that God can take them to where they need to be.

Keep fighting.