The Social Porcupine

Written a long time ago Walk the narrow straight.  It's not so straight, but it's narrow. No room for a companion. No guardrails for when I feel weak. My strength is ebbing. I am drowning in a moving circling current, unable to float into freedom.  What does it mean to let go of someone you love?  I know I mustn't cut him out of my life. I know I mustn't hate him. How could I? My heart aches because I love him so much and don't know how to be merely a friend.  A friend? I wait. I grow. I pray. I gave him my heart... he said, "Thank you for your vulnerability. Let me hold it for a bit. Never mind. It bores me."  Oddly, he never returned my gift. How could he? How can a heart be returned or taken back? How can fire be unkindled? Passion must burn its course until it dies.  * * * "What do you want to do with your life," a man asks a girl.  "I want to forget all of my dreams save the ones that might add sparkles to your life," t...

"All we are is dust in the wind." I don't know why this thought came to me, except that I felt I must stand against it. Even though it's from a fairly new song written by Kansas , the idea that we are nothing but dust struck me as something that must be as true and old as a proverb, perhaps even scriptural.  I asked my mother, "Is the idea that we are nothing but dust in the wind biblical?" "I think maybe." "It can't be," I said. "It is totally wrong." My mother turned to me. "Now be careful what you say." "But it can't be. God wouldn't ever say that we are worthless." And that's when I realized the full extent of why this bothered me. Surely, it wasn't in the Bible. Surely there would be no justification to the idea that we are nothing, meant for nothing, and to be nothing forevermore. God is a God of purpose, order, and beauty. Nothing, or rather, nihilism,  seems to be against His very ...

This is going to be a strange post. And honestly, I'm not sure why I'm sharing these ideas of mine with the world - besides the partial fact, that I think they are very important. And a couple of my friends said I should 😀Some of these friends are married... and agree with my points. So, I'd have to say that's something ;)  I'm just hoping what I say all makes sense when I put it down into words. Lol. Enjoy a new *unique* thought ;) I love fairy tales. They are some of the best stories ever. But some of the ideas in modern fairy tales are sort of twisted up.  Love at first sight.  Finding your one and only match.  Love makes all good, and lasts forever.  And once you have had that first kiss you shall live forever and ever, happily ever after. Now, I'm not trying to depress you, but love at first sight is silly and unreal. It doesn't happen. One can argue for infatuation at first sight. That I'll go for. But not love. ...

"What should I do? What am I SUPPOSE to do?" "Just go with the flow." "Trust God. Just see what happens." "No need to worry about it. Everything WILL work out." Now this is all good advice. But it's all missing something. It's lacking the solution to the real question. ACTION There's no action in any of those answers. "It'll happen." How? Yes, it's good to just wait and have patience. Worry never helps. Trust is very good. And it is very, very good to rely on God. But after that? We have to move. Take action. Along with doing that we have to still have patience and trust God. We still need to go with the flow... but we need to make sure we are on the go. We should be passively active. So, keep moving towards more than inactivity. Let's flow towards purposeful outcomes. Never go with the flow - but let's be flowing on the go!!