Clarifying My Faith in UN Security Council Reform

As I said last Tuesday in Faith in UN Security Council Reform, "I support equitable reform of the UN Security Council, including the regional group system, on the road to world federalism - at least for the security sector. From my perspective, Trump should be seeking to right-size military spending by all permanent members of the UN Security Council and across all regional groups in accordance with a parity principle." Now I need to clarify that.

What I really mean to say is that I have come to an article of faith in UN Security Council reform, which is reform of the United Nations Charter. I am actually thinking, as a forethought this Tuesday morning based on more than a decade of midlife UN study and observation, that the God of the Bible wants humanity to reform the United Nations Charter in the direction of a World Constitution, perhaps by 2045, and that I am called to help with this process. Then as an after-thought, I realize that this could very well be delusional on my part, but that it doesn't have to be. It could be a genuine call from the God of Abraham. This doesn't mean I have to see myself as Moses writing the Torah, or Jesus teaching the Sermon on the Mount, or Muhammed recording the Quran. It's enough that I am raising consciousness about UN Charter reform and world federalism in my own mind, and on my blog. Experts will do the drafting of the text at some point down the road. Maybe they will not feel as called by God and challenged by disability as I feel myself to be, but that doesn't mean they won't produce a better system of global governance. In other words, I don't need to define my success, or my mental health, by whether or not any of my ideas are ever adopted by current or future UN reformers. But if I am genuinely called by God to a vocation in this area, then it would be contrary to my mental health to avoid the effort.

I am not up to anything like a regular job, at least not for a while, and maybe not from here on out, but I can volunteer my best self as a noon eastern (part-time) political blogger from Monday to Friday minus sick days, holidays, and personal days. And I can volunteer my best blogging self in the context of Christian vegan eremitic discernment.

There is one more point I want to share this morning in relation to this topic, and that is an acknowledgement of my learning curve as an independent UN Charter reform scholar. To put my learning curve into better perspective, this week I see that I can do much better than last week's "Trump should be seeking to right-size military spending by all permanent members of the UN Security Council and across all regional groups in accordance with a parity principle." This isn't very clear at all, and in fact it could send the wrong messages to China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Part of what I need to do moving forward is explore what I mean by parity in security spending between regional groups. Why parity between regional groups and not proportionality by economic size or population? The other part of what I need to do moving forward is consider reform of the UN Charter as a whole and by article. In this case, I was alluding to Article 26, but rather haphazardly. Let's see if I can become better organized. If it's your will, Abba, that I continue to volunteer in this direction, please send reinforcement at the appropriate juncture.