It's Just One Question.

A question that exploits the inadequacies in our perfect lives.

A question that could muddy the clearest of minds.

A question that curves the straightest of paths.

A question that could push you to stumble and fall.

A question that could reveal your desires and dreams. 

One simple question. A question to change it all!

Our lives are predetermined at birth by the hopes and dreams of the ones who have come before us. Governments drill math, science, art and history into our minds with the hopes of igniting a spark; but we continue to wander aimlessly through twelve years of adolescent life. Only to enter a brand new world, and check a box on a form stating, “I will be ______ for the rest of my life”.

We live in bliss. We live in sorrow. We display our adventures. We tell the world of our success. We dare our peers to imitate us and we ask strangers to follow. We confess to anyone who will listen, “My life is exactly where it should be”, and hide our inadequacies and jealousy behind a smile in a selfie.

Then one sunny afternoon, one question turns your straight path into a fork and you begin to wonder, “What have I achieved?”

Opportunity, Responsibility, Elevation, Transformation, Desires and Heart.

We are all capable of achieving each of these; yet we climb...we fail…we climb again… all to exclaim “It’s Impossible!” in the end. So we stand in the mirror looking at a reflection of empty desires and say for the first time, “Please, I need help with my life”.

Your peers say ‘emulate me’.

The stars say “replicate Me”.

The media says “You’re Not You! You’re whoever I say you should be”.

So you turn to professionals and authors who sell you half a revelation, purposely leaving lint in your pockets where your dream should be. New transformations equal new desires, but your old life reappears and now you’re walking the aisles searching for answers in another PHD. All the while, you ignore the light and turn a blind eye to the endcap with a book that says:

Seek Me.

Buy Me.

Open Me. 

The answer you need is in the nineteenth book and thirty-seventh chapter of me. 

Life now seems renewed with a simple turn of a page, but “that’s impossible” hesitation reminds you; infiltrating your mind with its infamous cloak of denial. So you leave your book at home and find...

Your peers who say “emulate me”.
The stars who say “replicate me”.
The media who says “I already told you. You’re whoever I say you should be.”

Now you’re standing at a fork in the road with self-desires calling you from both sides, when a small voice penetrates your heart asking you to:

Seek me. 

Pick me.

I wrote the answer you need in the nineteenth book and thirty-seventh chapter of me.

A small voice says “yes” when asked “Can it really be that easy?”
“All you have to do is trust me, dedicate your life to me, obey me and love me!”

One question. One simple question. No longer a question at all.
All because you trusted in a book and an author who reveals:

“I have always had the answers you were seeking. You just had to find me!”

Inspired by: Psalms 37 

I Owe Him My Life

My life is not perfect, but it’s MY life.

It’s full of lessons, trials, joy, tribulations, grief, adventure, sadness, confusion, pain and so much more.

I have tested murky waters with the tip of my toe, and other days I have swam in the deep end. 

I have loved the wrong people, and shunned the right people.

I have jumped into black pits of misery, and I have climbed the tallest ladders to joy.

I have laid eyes on beauty rival of my wildest dreams, and breathed in air so pure - life seemed like a dream. 

I have learned that good doesn’t always mean right, and pain always equals hope.
Perseverance and I are on a first name basis, but history seems to always repeat itself.
I have eaten the forbidden fruit, and let the sweet nectar blind my eyes from all that is good.
I have ungratefully escaped death’s grip; and foolishly tested him as well.
I have received love to rival the most infamous heroines, but it never seems to outweigh the black love the penetrates your mind and body.
I shouldn’t be writing this today, but I’m here. Why?
Because of Him.

You see, there’s a man who saved me.

He warned me to stop when I tested the murky waters, and stood nearby with a lifevest and towel after my deep sea swim. 

He provided me with a Kleenex when the tears in my eyes had no end, and smiled when I finally learned to make the right decisions. 

He threw down a ladder when the black pits of misery prevented me from finding an exit, and then pushed me up the ladder to joy on the other side.

He stood by and held my hand when I experienced true beauty for the first time, and he calmed my anxiety when I breathed in the pureness around me thereafter. 

He fought for me with his Father when my decisions tainted my first, second and third impressions; and He helped ease the pain when life was too hard to hold on to.

He patiently reminded me that he would never grow tired of me replaying my favorite song; and when I had my fill, he introduced me to a life changing genre. 

While he constantly warned me of my intolerance to the sweet fruits calling my name, he always stayed by my side when the adverse effects came over me. 

He removed the blinders when my one-track mind took control, and revealed to me a life outside of my goals. 

He protected me when the tons of steel could not, and jolted me awake when my body gave in to the slumber. 

He reminded me that I’m capable of love no matter what the world says, and proved to his father the same. 

The man who saved me.  The man I owe everything to...

He is also the man who died for me. 

He died for the good that resides in me and he died for the bad that took over me.  He saved me from the wrath of his father, who revealed to me 'He loved me before He knew me’. His love for me has no earthly ties, for His love shines on me from the bluest of skies. 

This man redefined perseverance. This man gave me a whole new meaning for hope.  

This man was my saving grace. 

This man is my saving grace. 

My life is not perfect, but it's HIS life. 

Inspired by: Romans 5