Forged By Faith

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...

Philippians 1:23 NIV rebuilds a belief in whatever better may be Or maybe wherever better may be. Whyever better may be whatever and wherever it might be. In whomever better may wait and in however we’re supposed to get there to wherever whoever better might be as they must then wait for you and me who aren’t yet whatever better may be. Indeed, perhaps the path is that of a wonder as to whenever we might be wherever better may be with whomever better’s always been after however long and whyever hard the road there will be toward whatever better must be. Whatever the case may be, I just know that from right here and right now I cannot help but see that I am not the best that I can be and nor is this world around me but rather the both are but what I must believe is only the meager beginning of whatever better must be as it simply cannot be whatever already is. Because all that already is is only whatever it’s already been and, well, growth just doesn’t work like that, not with time stil...

2 Corinthians 5:8 NLT awaits the exchange Because there comes a strange thing within this faith. And that is what feels like a personal table turned into what is a person turned too. And this is because of what seems to become of the experience that is waiting. For as we all know rather well, being these highly impatient people we’ve all of us become, that waiting is, unto us, one of the things that we loathe most in life. We absolutely despise having to be patient as it’s often asked of us in the midst of either danger or desire. And in truth, there’s really not many other daily options from which we all continue to choose. No, the hard reality of our reality is that we all daily decide between only that which we like and the more which we don’t. There really isn’t anything in the middle nor then anywhere in the same for us to stand in what would feel some measure of peace, of curiosity, of even a simple indifference. Instead it seems as if the sum of everything we face and feel withi...

John 14:3 NIV pursues the promise of patience Though, if we were to be honest, it’s usually one pretty hard for us to find the need to feel as if we need to find it. And that simply because, well, we’ve become so impressively impatient that now being patient, or even being asked to consider it, it’s something that feels unto us as if a punishment. It brings with it always this weight, the wait, and it seems more often than not measured only in wonder and worry, neither of which seem at all light to a life lived always in a hurry. And that’s the problem precisely! It’s that this version of life we’ve all chosen, yes, chosen to live is one lived so fast and, well, freaked out both by and because of it that we’ve all basically become entirely willing to abandon boredom and belief as both of them ask that we sit inside a silence of time that, again, seems almost a violence against us as it brings unto us all the thoughts we’ve never thought that we thus have no idea how to think. And that ...