Build it Better ~ Closing Thoughts

Greetings Dear Reader,

Things change.  That is the only constant in the universe outside of God.  The cosmic dance reels and whirls through its steps.  We are the tiny spec in the backwater galaxy that gets to think it is all alone in that dance.

We have missteps and stumbles.  We choose to tear down good things and build up ones that are bad.  What if we chose to take a beat before we begin to build again?  What if we used the remaining time of seclusion to learn how to be still?  Building takes planning.  There is much less activity at a drafting table or in a project plan than there is in the actual building.  That is, however, where dreams and hope begin to take shape.

What we can do is use the time to plan how we will build it better.  We can determine what steps in the dance we wish to follow and ones we need to leave behind.  We can stop chasing bad creativity in our minds by laying aside worry and fear.  We can pursue the steps of good and right by using our creativity to create them.

That which drives us cannot be condition or circumstance.  The music must be the song of love from the Father played on the instruments of faith and hope.  At the heart of it all, we do wish for things to be back to good.  We are not always willing to do what it takes to get there.

I must plan, project, and pray in ways that allow the Father to have his will and me to release the things that are not worthy of building.  I must not indulge in the negative and dark.  I must be still for a bit and listen, learn, and linger.  It is the Father who will give us what we need including the will to follow his Son well in the dance.  I am going to spend some time laying here, forgetting the world, and holding onto the Father.

He promises to be with me through it all.  He gives me moments in the dance where I can pause and be his alone.  I do not think we will create a utopian world on our own.  We hold too much selfishness still for that.  What we can create pockets of love and hope.  We can dance in faith.  There are times, however, when we must be still to know that he is God.   We must let him be the one who carries us as we are still and learn from him.

I challenge you to listen to this song as a prayer.  I do not think that the author intended it that way but it works for me.  We will get there.  I hope it is together.  We can build it better if we choose.  You are always welcome to walk or just lay here with me, Dear Reader.

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

We'll do it all, Everything
On our own

We don't need anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say how I feel

Those three words are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace to remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where; confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

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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Every human story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything back to Good.

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