the loving truth...

For many, this time of the year brings to the surface struggles of old and offers new challenges lying wait on the horizon for us to overcome. Although these battles are differing and personal to each one of us there is a constant that resides in all of our hearts…it is the desire to find seas of tranquility beyond the new horizon….for a more promising tomorrow? So I find myself grasping for words in order to fully explain what is surfacing in my own life while trying desperately to resolve the conflicts that quake through the canyons of my heart and mind.

These ominous cracks that exist in my own heart from past tremors of pain and the accompaniment of reactions that come as swiftly as death, due to those experiences, bleed relentlessly to the surface for all to see. The compulsion is to pay intense attention to all that is old….offer it more attention than it deserves and in doing so lose track of where I am going. Thoughts turn inward and the world begins to become drown out in the noise of self-pity. Cynicism sets in as the state of society becomes, evidently, to far gone into stormy seas to rescue. What could I really do anyway…there is far too much that is needed to make right all the transgressions that have darkened the doorsteps to the hearts of so many. Why spend precious time fighting the stormy winds of change? Since one will never truly “see” wind but only the evidence of destruction that is left in its wake…why even make an attempt if it will only leave countless memories of willing hands, clinched tightly, swinging furiously at the wind like those in a childish temper tantrum. In that very thought we find the sum of our self-produced love, or attempt there of, to be meager if measurable at all. It is a defining moment in our journey through the landscape of life that brings us into an understanding of how lacking of infinite power or the lack of power produced by infinite love, that we humanly possess. The need is great and the objective of affection will need exponential depth in order to feed the multitudes which are lacking the nourishment to face yet another mornings dawn. Awareness that humanity, at times, is far to stricken by the quakes that rumble beneath their feet to prevail over the paralysis propagated from glorious visions of self-sufficiency is at once indisputable. We are built to be used as instruments, that are in need of the breath of a living God to whisper through, in order for the hearts of those around us to be able to hear the harmonious melody of love produced by the exponential value of our willingness and God’s capacity to love at the depths necessary to bring life producing change.

As a follower of Christ, it is imperative to remember that “LIVING GREAT” is only one letter away from “LOVING GREAT”. The love that lives in me, powered by the love of Christ living through me, is multiplied to be exponentially greater…to reach deeper and farther than any other love and in doing so shatters cynicism and thaws the paralysis produced by the frigid heart of self-pity.