Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV Day by day Hour by hour. Minute by minute. Moment by moment if not in fact breath by breath sometimes. Indeed, this life, this line upon which it’s walked and the increasing narrowness thereof, hereof, hereon, it’s something in which so much has come and then gone that eventually all you come to know is this song you sing as the rain falls in sheets upon what is a ground you trust to hold up no matter the weather nor the worry as to whether or not it really will. A worry we all lose hopefully as, well, one day we’re going to find that it’s never once mattered in life what we thought this life was like nor even if we liked whatever this life was. And now that’s not to say that we shouldn’t as Scripture itself, God’s very playbook for how a life should look (and how it’s usually not what we make it out to become), it’s says that there exists nothing better for a man than to enjoy His lot, appreciate His toil, give all He has as if giving it to God in whom we can tr...

Romans 8:28 NIV In all things I’m increasingly convinced that one of the decidedly weirder symptoms of what is our human condition is this baser inability to differentiate perspective from perception. Because the simple reality is that all of us can physically see what is clear evidence of a God so filled with grace that even life in this place remains largely more amazing than it should honestly be. And yet despite all that we do see we still find what are ongoing ways to doubt, to complain, to argue in fact with He who ensures that this life is better than it ought to be. Why? Because we’re just blind like that. Indeed, we’ve all the ability to see, to hear, to reckon, reason, recall and combine all into the honestly reasonable call unto righteousness and responsibility. I mean truly, we can all see things or hear things that are said or done within this world and differentiate between the good and the bad, those we like from those we don’t, the stuff that sets right and the more tha...

Psalm 34:19 NIV The misconception Something like this is almost always a result of this conception built atop a person’s personal perception which, if we’re being honest, is likely anymore rather prideful if not completely so. But it’s this idea that’s given birth inside this mindset sat upon this ongoing assumption that we ourselves can understand the baser foundation of pretty much anything. And while there could be some legitimacy to that theory, the truth is that unfortunately these days we simply allow too many things to get in the way of a simple understanding. In fact most days find us quite unsure if we’re standing and if so what for. No, anymore much of life is sadly defined as merely a time in which we daily allow our minds what’s amounted to basically a free-reign over, well, basically all things. Indeed, we’ve become of this obviously apparent understanding of life that has somehow, ironically, always managed to misconstrue free-will with freedom and thus too a general lack...

John 16:33 NIV The place of peace Oddly enough it’s not a place at all but rather a person, not that it would matter much either way as, well, neither is welcome here in this place in which we are for still yet another day that’s likely to prove much the same as all the others that we’ve endured thus far. And indeed, life of late does seem a matter meant of endurance, of enduring, of our having to endure that which by no means seeks to endear itself to us nor probably expects our to endear ourselves to it. Rather it’s quite clear that life here is turning quite violent, quite silent, quite pliant to the wants of whims of them who continue to measure that which matters in life as only that which is had here where all of us are and many for some reason wish to stay. A mindset that I find I’m failing more and more all the time to understand. Because, from where I stand, I just about can’t stand being here anymore. And while there’s nothing at all that I can do about that seeing as how I h...