Reality Pit Stop

He was born of creation, spoken and made A man in the likeness of sunlight and shade. A son to the Father of light on the earth, Whose breath woke creation from sleep unto birth. The dust of the ground swept about into form Until it was settled awaiting the morn. At the dawn of the sixth day he swept up the man And set him down in His garden to tend to the land He commanded His son to take all He was giving To take care and dominion of everything living. Man awoke in the garden of beauty and glory, He walked among creatures all new to the story. All was good in that garden, the fruit with it’s seeds, The land reproduced to fulfill all his needs. The Father of knowledge is ancient and wised And His commandments not to be despised. Only two of the trees were not for partaking, And should the man, his Father forsaking partake of the fruit of Knowledge or Life His days would be full of toil and strife, For the words of life must be obeyed, Or

     You can change your face, and you should.       Constantly being barraged by people telling us that we need to become the most authentic version of our self, when we’re trying to stay focused on our need for Christ, is sort of like trying to swim up river. It’s exhausting. We will always need Christ, and while we know this, even becoming apathetic for a moment gets us partially drowned.  What it means to be our most authentic self by a secularist perspective, is to do whatever feels right to us. We can create goodness in ourselves by good works, or we can create goodness for ourselves by casting off the restraints and opinions of others and becoming whatever we want to be.      The doctrine of self is tightly bound around our hearts, and the Word of God is piercing joints and marrow, separating us from every false way our flesh seeks to divulge in. This is the separation of who we were without Christ, from who we are in Christ. It is painful to disentangle ourselves from

      Dare I say it, V…..Va…….Vaccinations. Ugh. My head just about exploded. Vaccinations are the hot topic of the day folks, put your headphones on or get ready to throw a tantrum because there is just no middle ground here. If you do find some middle ground you’ll find yourself quickly and inadvertently hemmed in on either side by mobs of article branding loonies and people who want the government to sanction the kidnapping of your children.       There are few subjects as nasty as this one, but we’ve all lost our ever-loving minds, and so I think we need a sanity check. In fact, you might just be unhinged if you don’t believe in vaccinations. You might be abusive. You might be a criminal. We might need to take your kids away and give you 500 rounds of conversion therapy. Who knows? But we definitely do.        There’s little or no middle ground here, so you are going to think I’m taking sides, probably whatever side you aren’t on, but I’m prepared to dig my own grave on