Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 5:4 NIV bears the burden of being Said burden being borne beside the awareness that one day what it won’t be, thus meaning then that our being whatever we are will to cease to be at some point. And that on top of the daily realization that what we are are but beasts of burden within a life in which we’re tasked with trying, with surviving, with learning and growing and using the both to better our living of what are still, even despite all we know how to do and perhaps even enjoy doing, to eventually stop being whatever they are. And on top of that we’ve none of us any idea when. Rather we all just wake up every morning and go about our personal typicalities in what are lives that have been whatever they’ve been allowed to be for however long we’ve let them be whatever they’ve become. Which is, again, likely nothing more than a burden we bear as is borne inside the weights we carry of the woes we know and the wants we want more than the many known woes we’ve known in the ...

2 Corinthians 5:5 NIV revels in the unraveling For comes within it the realizing as to the distances and discrepancies designed and determining both between where we are and where we’ve the chance to be but also then those dividing who we are from who we were made to become. And the distances and differences are so disastrous that it demands of us a choice chosen as to just how frozen we become to what are basically only two different beliefs as are believed by all who live what is a life within this world in which we all have. And those two are that either here is home or that we’re not wherever it’s meant to be found. I was just thinking about this in decidedly different terms last night as I found myself wondering once again through this curiosity as to why this world works this way in which it both thinks it does and has indeed come to convince us all it should. So many things just continue to become questionable as I grow up and get older and find this boulder on my shoulder that ...

Romans 8:23 NIV runs the length of redemption Even though it starts at regret, takes a right through wrongs, crawls through remorse over choices made in foolishness, continues through what eventually becomes the reconsideration of basically everything, takes another right through leaving things behind and inevitably leads right unto what is nothing short of utter ruination. It is in every way a truly strange vocation, this working out with fear and trembling our salvation. For it asks that we ask questions that we either know the answers to and too that they’re probably not good ones or rather those that we simply know we don’t want to know the answers to as we know they’re not good ones. Because this faith slowly opens our eyes to see the blinding stupidity hidden poorly underneath every poor choice we’ve ever made and the vast weakness in which we’ve made the anyway. Yes, though it be a path paved in strangeness as it’s poured in the substance of everything that everyone else seeks o...

2 Corinthians 5:6 NIV considers not what’s next But rather only what’s then next. Because as time goes wherever the rest of time’s gone into what is a past that for now still seems oddly present, this faith presents us with this trust that helps us to grow in both the understanding of and appreciation in what is a faith that says that it’s not what we go through that matters most of all but rather where we get to go to once we’ve gone through whatever He’s determined we need to in order to ensure that we’re by then ready to fit through what is a doorway so narrow that none of us can fit as we sit. Which is the companion understanding that helps us to come to terms with where we’re standing and start here seeking for reasons as to why here we have. For here is still not home and so it makes no sense for us to know still so much of all that’s still here, does it? Honestly, I find myself asking myself this kind of question constantly. Why am I worried about whatever’s happening? Why do th...

Philippians 1:22 NIV tries toward retirement And that even though we’re most days both tired and torn inside what is a world that’s trying to tear itself apart more and more everyday. Anymore it seems that so much of all we see is but a sea boiling in doubt and disbelief, a general refusal to relinquish our assumptions choosing rather to stand upon such presumptions as our pride and its preferences still meaning something. And they do. This is what makes this road so hard and that’s too why it so often feels so much longer than forever contends it really is. It’s because we are living in a place in which pride and pretense and preference and opinion do count for something. In fact, to most they’re all that mean anything. Meaning then that unto most they are everything. Yet thankfully there exists not one common mindset shared amongst our humanity. Now that’s definitely not to say that any of the others are in any way common as the road remains wide and densely travelled which leads unt...