Forged By Faith

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...

1 John 5:4 NIV The rebirth of belief It changes not only what we see but what we seek and why. It alters what we think and causes us to reconsider the reasons for which we think it. It offers us a fresh start and that even every day if we need. For this faith, one built not on what we see but where it is that we hope to go and the narrowness that is the road by which we’ll arrive, it’s such a strange life as it always seems to find this audacity to continue imagining things better than we’re even able to believe in at the time. All because as this world spins so too do we lose our ability, our interest to continue spinning with it. Rather we begin to come apart. And, well, that’s where a life finally starts. Because all of us have lived what is one way. Now that’s obviously not to say that we’ve all lived the same as there are among each of us such varied differences in regard to desires, dreams, destinations, definitions, determinations, devotions, disciplines and the all too common l...

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV The way unknown This is the only way by which we might ever go toward all that isn’t yet which is all that is better still than everything that already was and is as we speak. For to find something better demands a belief in something different. But to find something different asks that we do something new. And to do something new refuses always the existence of any efforts previously tried because all that we’ve already tried has already achieved the way of life that we’ve already known. And indeed, perhaps all that you know already is all you care to see, to be. And if that is the case then good for you and congratulations are in order for your having arrived at your final destination. Only problem is that this isn’t our final destination. Rather this world is but the proverbial jumping off point from which the rest of forever will be determined and that by one entirely simple matter: The presence or absence of faith. Truly, there is nothing else that really mat...

Hebrews 11:1 NIV The shift Not sure when it takes place nor even how long it takes as rather it’s a change that itself aligns rather well with this word written here. For this turning of a life on its head is something that feels different, seems different, looks, sounds, is different nearly all the time as even time itself begins to take on a quite varied appreciation from what’s long been but a measure of what we think might matter. No, in truth everything changes when He starts changing us via the hope we’re called to have and the strange courage in which it’s had. Because, well, it is entirely unlike anything we’ve ever seen or thus assumed we’ve known. And that’s because most of our lives have found us alive inside what is this mind made of this belief of mainly only that which we can see as seeing is a sensation easily proven. And, well, being a people of pride nearly perfected, we do indeed love those things which we cannot fail or be proven mistaken about. This is in fact why o...