Forged By Faith

1 Kings 19:12 NIV It’s one thing to be of a commonly hobbled faith which asks always for some kind of sign of the divine, while it’s quite another to stand in the midst of the evidence of such a fumbling faith’s feeble request. But perhaps it’s the strangest scenario of all to have stumbled through the storms that we’d otherwise always only wish away only to find that God is waiting always behind every battle line we feel to be formed only against us within this life within this place in which it so often seems if life itself is perhaps a matter measured against our favor and favorite coming out in first place. Indeed, so many days find us asked again into the rain with a steady uncertainty as to why we need to weather the whether or not’s as never wanted but somehow always welcome. And even in that we never seem to wonder as to why we welcome the whether and instead confuse the weather as if we’re unsure as to how God might display His mercy within what we feel only messy. We do hate ...

Luke 2:9 NIV For faith is in fact quite the terrifying encounter as it asks that we alter our saunter in such a way that all of life is all of the sudden all walked backwards, pretty much blinded, and as upside down as none can imagine. All because it finds us in a life lived within our trying to find things ourselves. And this oddity of our not finding it sends us binding, bounding, bouncing into the believing in something that is in many ways indeed still terrifying. For how else might we go about the describing of all that we’re finding now that we’ve both been found and in that felt that our fears are futile so long as their forced to stay lost within the way in which we’ve won them from those many who share them? Seems that’s what changes now upon this celebration of a baby who came to change everything. So much so that a few guys going about their normal work out in the fields late one night were caught entirely unready for such a marvelous sight as the glory of the Lord shining ...