Forged By Faith

Job 20:6-7 NIV The vanishing point Though we see it not from where we stand or don’t there comes a point in which a pride’s at home in what becomes the highest hope that it can have and that of a life in which it is all that is good and everything else is only bad. And this idea, this ideal it’s something that we’ve not the ability to see because our pride is so blind that it thinks it can. Indeed, the issue with all vanity and ego is that it thinks that it knows all there is to know and can thus determine for itself the best place to go, the best things that we can see, the best that we can be. And sadly it always assumes that we’re already there. But if we’re already there then we’re already gone. Because the highest point of pride is the unforeseen loss of life. And I know that may sound strange considering the sights and sounds we see atop this ground of a people living like royalty. And indeed, it does here seem as if vanity has no real negatives, no real problems, can in fact man...

Matthew 5:6 NIV Everything emptied The same is all that can ever be filled for that which already has has already some that can, yes, be added onto, but that which is had already will be thus always there either blended with that which is added or elsewise buried beneath whatever’s placed or poured atop. And this truth, this simple, scientific understanding should prove enough for all of us to stop and question what we’re doing with life, in life for in life we spend life seeking always the additions and addendums added unto the already and thus seek with the same time and intention less of the empty. And indeed, of this I am truly guilty as I sit within what is a room that is as any other with what are four walls, a couple doors and even a window. Every wall nearing full with what is basically the very sum of everything I’ve managed to continue enjoying within this world. But as I’ve added and added and planned and plotted and figured out the pathway forward to the finishing of my ide...