Archive for the ‘Persuasions’ Category

Tapestry

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Life is like an array of threads that come spilling from the spool of experience. Sometimes they end up all knotted together in fuzzy chaos. Most of us spend a good portion of our lives trying to unravel the mess we’ve made. It isn’t fair, we say, these things that have happened to us. These hard, terrible things.

We’ve all been given circumstances, events, and experiences with which we are forced to reckon. It’s like up until a certain point, we are recipients of these realities…and then we come to this place where we really do have to make sense of what we’ve been given.

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Love Like Gravity

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

What if Love was a natural law?

What if was like oxygen-can’t breath without it. Or like gravity. Everything falls apart without it?

What if we don’t take loving people seriously, and instead love has become a matter of convenience? What if we treat people like accesories-only letting them into our lives and circles when they make us look good?

Many a songwriter and poet and artist have awakened us to the reality that without love things really do fall apart. But maybe this is a trade-off we can afford. Because love is hard. It’s painful. It’s frustrating to put up with people who don’t understand you. It feels stupid to keep holding out and holding on when people let you down. And I don’t know what that even looks like. I don’t know what it looks like to love people. Really love them.

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