Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV A life of suffice It’s a simpler life. A calmer, quieter life. A life lived without worry over want or win. A mind made upon making the most of whatever situation or circumstance you’re in. A heart not quite so heavily laden by all the things that everyone else is looking for, longing for. A soul satisfied with the simplicity of what is simply a simpler life. Sadly it’s arguably the way of life that I don’t know if any of us can or will ever know. I believe it to be the life we were created to know, the life we were made for. But we’ve long since lost the innocence which makes it so amazing. Lost it to looking for the ever-more that we’re all still down here looking for. And the strange part to me is that we just keep looking. No matter what we find, no matter how much we have, no matter how many days go good nor how many don’t go that bad, we still all awake unto each and every day with plans already firmly in place to sprint right back unto the race to what is f...

Hebrews 13:5 NIV Less isn’t more It’s actually everything. And that’s because it gives us the ability to see everything that would elsewise be missed were we too busy being impressed with only some part or portion of whatever is. It’s the opportunity to stop focusing on trying to see something specific or find something the same and rather just embrace this journey spent through both time and strain. It’s a heart willing to let go and look beyond and live for more. It’s the mind’s audacity to take stock of everything the eye can see and heart can crave and stand there and say, “No! No, there must be more to all of this than all of this.” Because if all there is is all there is then nothing much matters. For if in this life we can find our treasures, feel our pleasures, seek out both fame and fortune and, having successfully found them, make friends and have fun with them and because of them, then this world would then be our goal. Because here would have and hold all that we might need...

Luke 12:15 NIV More is less If in regard to nothing else but room itself. And that’s simply because within our lives, within our eyes, within our minds there can fit only so much. We’ve only so much time within this life in which to find what all there is that we’re here to find, to feel, to figure out, to forge, to forget, to race toward and/or walk away from. To everything in and of this life there is an inherent limitation in some respect and to some degree. The problem then seems to be that as a people we still seek to see the kind of majority that allows us no room for anything. For, again, the more we have the less room we do. Because, well, everything takes up space. It may be that of the literal, physical space around us such as within our houses. This version we all know rather well as we all know rather well the amount of stuff we’ve at present crammed within our nooks and crannies. We all know the extra stuff that’s stored either in our garages, attics, basements or storage ...

Psalm 37:16 NIV Less is less Just of nothing that we’ll want and even less of all we’ll need. For with less exists this opportunity of humility coming along and convincing us to keep going along what is the eternal path that’s paved in devotion and its ability to keep ever-lit this raging fire that lives this life through these eyes that see finally these lies for the lies they are rather than the lives we thought we wanted. And indeed, within this world we are surrounded by so many things that can become unto us the seeds which grow this humility as every single day spent here we see something else that someone else says we need that, only through humility, can we see we not only don’t really need but actually quite clearly leads down a road we don’t want to travel on anymore. And that because, contrary to common confusion, not all roads lead to Heaven. In fact there’s only one and it was carved by He who came to carry a cross upon which a life He lost as was lain down willingly so as...