Forged By Faith

Proverbs 12:18 NIV To help or harm Such is both the question we answer and often times the question we ask. Alas, we don’t usually see it as a question at all, that neither being asked nor thus in need of being answered. And that because we’ve become quite accustomed to this all but generalized reluctance to assume any responsibility in life. And by assume I mean as in assuming it upon ourselves, and that choice chosen to be ignored as we all seem to collectively assume that there is no real responsibility in life. And that made both already perfectly clear and yet somehow clearer almost every day. And that because we continue to watch the masses fade away into this waste of days in which we’ve all words we say but somehow they without anything much being said. It’s truly amazing how we can take something so freeing, so beautiful, so opportunistic as our uniquely human ability to be linguistic and use it for such superficiality as, again, always talking about nothing. Yes, we love talk...

James 3:10 NIV A word’s worth It seems that something so specialized as the state of mind which we allow to let fall or flow from lips our own should be of something resembling a value as it takes a measure of both time and effort for us to at first realize the necessity of something being said, a considering met with our contemplation as to what then needs to be said, a searching for the right words or ways in which to say what we feel worth the work within the way and then the actual physicality as is expressed within the movements of a mouth fighting to form these words so that they might finally get out. But should said worth be always both wonderful and worthless? A winning of a moment in meaning as won in the 50-50 of the same moment proving meritless? What is the meaning of a word’s merit? Is it not measured within the distance that it inspires those listening to become interested in either going or coming? Should we not seek always to say something worth hearing? What is worth ...