Spiritual Canvas

A lot of times the simple magical things of the Christian story get expedited so they can be used for a certain purpose. The magical perplexing nature of the person that has been promised since the dawn of time, the thought that the act of betrayal for that long awaited drum roll of humanity, would be done with a kiss.... How can that be a punctuated sentence on the way to explaining “the gospel.” No need to stop here kids. Just keep 'em  moving along like cattle so they can get to the part where they are saved by hearing about Jesus. I guess we don't mind losing the value of life, in the service of our blind unrelenting perspective. I think when my sunday school teacher taught me about Old Testament Saul there was laced in the telling a measure of resentment for the character of Saul. Maybe she saw his pride and arrogance, and maybe it reminded her at some level of her blindness she had to her own pride. Match that with the fragrant beautiful mystifying David...

Maybe a lie is incomplete in its offering  Even if it’s a thin packaging to wake someone up to the truth inside of it. We lie to ourselves all day long, Tricking ourselves Manipulating our own minds and emotions To keep up the walls that remind us we are safe Our safest walls are indeed our deepest prisons. We will regret the wall we put up that stops us from living life as free as we hope to. We believe we are free and threaten those who get close to revealing its not true. Knots tied all over Restricting our minds  Until the muscles we once could use Have now atrophied, And in their weakened state we smile believing we have a higher degree of confidence in life Confidence is a breath away from our eyes opening to the outside world which we choose to ignore. Ignorance is bliss. Confidence is at times a hope misplaced. We think our shell we have created Will sustain us forever If you grow too much within that shell You will soon find y...