Greetings Dear Reader,
As a crafter of tales and an oft-times dissembler of deeds,
I seek the truth on which to build my tales.
Historical Fiction, my primary genre, requires that the history of the situation
be guarded whilst crafting the tale around it.
I am also a life-long asker of uncomfortable questions. Merging the truth with uncomfortable
questions is an excellent foundation for learning.
The difficulty is the way in which we stand sentinel over
truth. We seem to have lost the ability
to speak the truth in love. That is how
it is supposed to be done. The truth is
ours to hold and guard. It is even a weapon
when necessary. The problem comes when
we strike with it and withhold compassion and kindness. We use it as a hammer or sword. We excuse it by saying we are “just being
honest.”
We are not just being honest when we speak the truth in
anger, irony, or for vengeance. When we
turn the truth into an aggressive harmful weapon, it loses its power as truth. The wounds get the attention instead of the
truth. Wielding the truth in love is
what allows us to carve away the things that are not true and move further
along in the things that matter.
When we use the truth to hurt others, we may convince them of
the truth but we have not won them over.
We may put them off balance but we are not drawing them into our
circle. Our vital duty is to speak the
truth in love. Love is the foundation; therefore,
it must come first. When I load my speech
with truth, it must be couched in love for the object of that speech.
I cannot pretend to follow Christ and refuse to act as he
did. I must be aware that the only
people he was harsh with were the religious leaders who mishandled the truth by
making it a burden and failing to use love as its foundation. Law without truth is more than legalism. It is dead orthodoxy. It is a harsh weapon that does not give
life. Instead of making others free, it imprisons
them in soulless cells guilty of harsh judgment and makes them angry.
We must stand sentinel over the truth Dear Reader. It is our duty to protect the truth but it is
our first duty to love. Our primary
obligation to the truth is to deliver it in a way that reassures others or that
love. When we use love to deliver truth,
we use the most powerful weapon there is.
It disarms, welcomes, and reassures whilst stripping away pain and
suffering. It invites instead of
condemning. That is a position over
which I can stand sentinel Dear Reader.
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
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Thorn:
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