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I suppose this is where I complain about how everyone is getting so wrapped up in their sensitivity training and abolishing Christmas in lieu of “Holiday.”  I suppose this is where I rant on and on about the materialistic and capitalistic atrocities that comprise our western culture this time of year.  I guess it would be “enlightened” of me to ramble on and on about how Christmas is really no more than ancient pagan celebrations that were hijacked by the early church in order to dominate society and culture ultimately to enslave populations.

I don’t care about all that really.  I just don’t.

At the core of this holiday there is a profound truth.  The Living God extended himself into the form of a man upon this earth because of LOVE.  Christmas is about LOVE.  It is about a LOVE for us that when allowed to transform us passes through us into this world around us.  So this year … I choose to LOVE above all else.

it is standing room only
in the feasting hall
drink your poison
laugh away
for your torment scream
from deep within
rings endless clamor
against grey stone

the cynical fire
it slowly devours
hour upon hour
it burns ice cold

put on your hat
walk out your door
look around you
you are alone
wear that face
drink that drink
sing that song
it doesn’t matter
and it won’t change

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you have set it down
placed it in the drawer
buried it in the yard
dropped it into the sea
sent it to space
but it will never go
-that love-
it will haunt you
He will draw you

It was the greatest thing in the world to so quickly be so connected.  Information at the tip of our fingers …

What did we find out?  What have we learned?

I see what we have found.  It is this elephant of a revelation.  We have discovered that we are all humans and that we are capable of great evil.  We had great hopes and starry eyes, but we found our hearts; dirty, rotten, and mired in fear and greed.

It shouldn’t be a surprise, but the weight of knowing that the entire world is infected with the same disease that we ourselves wrestle with each and every day is much more immense than we thought.  We are afraid.

This beast is a wonder indeed.

“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie …”

2 Thessalonians 2: 9-11

“we want it to get better
just trust them
they created the problem
they can fix the problem”

so many don’t know
at how deep the hole
too many lies
control our lives

do
not
be
afraid

DO
NOT
BE
AFRAID

Fear is their gasoline.

“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.” Luke 21:25 - 26

blessed with the fierce drive to be

just to truly be

no more

no less

be

different

there is never any fault in pursuing your heart

never

when you find your heart you will be amazed as to what has been placed there

you will see the seeds of a much larger love than you could ever imagine

There is what we think is or was real and then there is what is real.

How fooled are we?

We despise and disregard so easily.

Our minds are so narrow and so easily clouded by experience.

So what is truth?

Were we fooled once and now are fooled again in our attempt to run from one extreme to another?

Are we the fool over and over again?

Has deception ruled us as we thought ourselves in truth?

Who claims dominion over truth and reason?

Is truth a minion of our collective intellectuality?

Or is our collective intellectuality a minion of mass self-deception which knows nothing about truth?

Does our sub-conscious ignorance of truth breed our relativistic conception of truth?

Does truth scare us so much that we must wrap our lies in doublespeak?

Are we really this scared of being wrong?

Are we so afraid of being deceived that we throw around “truth” as much as we throw around “love”?

the plague

I look around and notice that we are all a little sick

/FEAR\

\LOVE/

the cure

It isn’t just a Bob Marley thing, it is God and it is the sum of the gospel

you will make it

and you will both be better

real

honest

clean

you will limp

but you will truly live for the first time

don’t give up

don’t give in

fight for the people you love

fight

surrender

love