One of my favorite lines from any of the Batman movies is
when Thomas Wayne asks the young Bruce, “And why do we fall, Bruce?” There is a heartbeat of silence and then, “So
we can learn to pick ourselves up.” We
will fall. We will face plant. We will be broken, damaged, and hurting.
I have had days where getting out of bed hurt so much
emotionally that I would have preferred to just stay there. The world is a spiny, thorny place. Some days I feel like I am swimming naked in
a sea of shards of glass. The thing is
and this will not change: the only way out is through.
No matter how much it hurts or damages me I must move
forward. I must pursue Christ with all
that I am. I will fall, fail, and
fracture. I have to get up. I have to keep going. When I refuse to get up then I am refusing to
follow.
Jesus told me that in order to follow I had to take up the
cross. I have to feel the weight of the
beam on my shoulder. I must get up when
I fall beneath the weight of it. He did
it for me and asks that I do it for him.
In order to move I risk falling and all the pain associated with
it. In order to keep moving I must get
up when I fall. It really is that
simple. “You do what you believe. Everything else is just talk.”
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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