Looking out into the world and faith stares back
The world our prize but faith our life
Options before us
Questions within us
Doubts around us
Do we see what we believe
Or believe what we see?
Filled with hesitation, our movements slow
Sometimes haphazard
Sometimes deliberate
Chaos in all directions
Peace within
Peace a moment
Peace the option of God
He shouts out our name
A response not always certain
For, within life, distractions support distance
Lost within a fabricated world
The voice of the heart becomes muffled
Causing us to forget our name
Causing us to become followers without conviction
Movement our calamity
We fall under a weight of a suggestive world
Self inflicted scars keep us hidden in the shadows
Keep us questioning our heart
Doubting our faith
On a quest for truth we search
How hard do we really look?
Isn’t it easier to become a dutiful participant of the world?
Rationalize options?
Criticizing the heart?
In the midst of the chaos, God still calls
God still loves, He offers a path
Love illuminates the way
Silence centers
The wrecking ball of doubt unleashed
Crashing into the rock of faith
Without a scratch, faith the victor
Purpose restored
Faith relied upon
God seen
Revealed as omnipresent and eternally loving
The chaos, the distractions, the noise of the world
May become over bearing
But with faith our life ad God our partner
A retreat into the silence a rejuvenating option
Struggles are real yet so is God’s love
When we fall, we fall into His arms
Fall into His love
That the world become our prize
A prize of opportunity
A prize of awareness
A prize rendered in love
Faith will show us the way
We need only be willing to follow
Look out into the world, what stares back?
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