Every human is confronted with the same decisions: believe the dark thoughts or cast them out. And I am realizing that intersection faced multiple times a day is really what makes or breaks a life.
I am reminded again, you can have the whole world but lose your soul.
Money is an illusion. Adventure can be miserable. Traveling doesn’t bring you peace. Neither does having a beautiful, loving family.
The reality of human nature is this: nothing is ever enough.
We grasp at the stars with hands that can’t hold anything, it’s always just within our reach.
Happiness. Fame. Romantic love. Success. Amazing experiences.
They fade in color like anything left out in the sun too long.
We are the desert wanderers, watching miracles happen next to us and forgetting in a day, never arriving to the promise land we’re camped right outside of.
We are dust and we can’t get back to the ground fast enough.
Meaninglessness, meaninglessness.
If we’re honest, we all face the reality of the futility of it all.
Some of us ignore the pressing truth. We numb ourselves with pictures and noise, bury ourselves in stuff and other’s drama. We curb the appetite of despair just enough to get us to the next high.
Some of us fall completely into the darkness and let it engulf is. We give up all hope and decide to leave. The world is shocked for a moment, then keeping spinning.
But some of us. Some of us touch the light on the other side, grasp it like a rescue rope.
Some of us have tasted Love and know everything else is bitter. And know matter how often we forget, we have this Hope.
A Reason.
A Meaning.
Beyond the easily combustible stuff.
Beyond fickle emotions or the next best thing.
Beyond the broken parts of our mind telling us it’s not worth it.
Beyond this world that is slowly expiring.
And it’s not even some intangible thing we have to conjure up or repeat enough phrases or read enough or attend the right church or seminar.
IT is a actually HIM.
A whispered name that stands firm when all the walls around us are knocked down.
A nest, untouched in a hurricane.
The only real reason for carrying on.
Jesus.
So we moved forward, with Light on our faces and Hope in our hearts.
Knowing what the world needs.
Knowing what we need.
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Perfect. We must have a “living hope,” (1 Peter 1:3) as no other hope will endure til the end.
2 COR: 4:16That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are4:16 Greek our inner being is. being renewed every day. 17For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.