Forged By Faith

Proverbs 19:2 NIV Missing the majesty of ordinary miracles. Mid-day middle of the week found me in a rare air not ready to rush through the hours as I'd done in all the days before. That's been my life for years, a hurry aimed at nothing but assuming the haste would prevent the waste of any more moments made into mistakes laying misplaced in the past I've come to regret all of the sudden. A seemingly endless season of so many moments missed simply because I had to hurry up onto my next scheduled stop. Planning a life plotted along a path I personally perfected, never once noticing that I wasn't living in the process as none of my plans preferred peace or patience in the present. No, just a rush back into the routine setup set as such to keep my eyes set upon the only prize for which I've come to assume life is best found worthy of living. A preconceived opinion that my best intentions are so worth pursing that I'd best pursue them in a hurry so that they don...

Psalm 119:82 NIV Our hearts long for an oasis in this desert where we can find a moment's relief from the sun beating down on our dry and weary bones and maybe even find a drop to quench our parched mouths. Sounds like a rather poetic depiction of life down here in this land of the lost. That's really been something that's been on my mind for a while now. The correlation between faith and the desert. I just think that we've managed to get the wrong idea of how this is all meant to go. One of our biggest problems when it comes to faith is that our minds get in our way. We allow ourselves to sit around and daydream of these perfect outcomes and lavish ideals where we never suffer from want or need. We plan these perfect lives that always go our way and are completely free from struggle and strife. And yet, we're still stuck in this reality where we're handed new trials and temptations and turmoil every single day. Eventually we get to this point where our ideals c...