Greetings
Dear Reader,
Yesterday I
wrote about something that is difficult for me.
Today is a polar opposite. Faith
comes very easy to me. My choice to
follow Christ so many years ago came out of a deep hatred of God and all that
he is. I was angry, harsh, and
malevolent at a very young age. What was
so odd was that in that inner rage I had everyone convinced I was a good
kid. I was headed quickly in the same
direction that had destroyed the lives of others in my family. I believed that God existed and that for some
reason he had chosen me as his favorite piñata.
I realize
how very wrong and prideful that thinking was.
In the very darkest moments since then I have never doubted that God
knew what happening far better than I did.
The night I put my faith in Christ was the same night I had decided to
end my life. A man reached out to me and
challenged me to speak to God honestly about how I felt. He further challenged me to see just how much
God loved me.
I did this
and have not looked back. There have
been too many times when I have not lived that faith but the faith has been
there just the same. This is one of the
things I pray about daily. When sit down
in the wee hours of the morning to face the blank page and the day’s writing I
pray first.
I pray for
my children, grandchildren, parents, siblings, and friends to have genuine
faith. I am not judging the current
state of their faith but rather wishing for them to have faith that functions
as easily as mine does. I am also
praying that they follow that faith and let it be the compass of their lives.
Wishing you
joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So
Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of
Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new
and old things from his great treasure store”
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