Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Lie Against Truth, Love, Joy and Forgiveness

We all listen to the Lie in pitiful attempts to hold still the tongue of Truth.



We find any way possible to convince ourselves that it is acceptable to succumb to the Lie that whispers seductively in the silence of our barren thoughts. The sultry Lie that bats eyelashes and strokes our ego draws us ever closer to our decision of potential demise. The Lie tints our precious photographs to shades of horror and alters our treasures so they are barely able to be recognized. The Lie attempts to find loopholes in Love to thwart our perception and ultimately alter our trust. 




The Lie wants us to believe that there is no safety or reward in Love. The Lie taunts and teases with a temptation seemingly too great to ignore. The Lie persuades us that our pending happiness now is too great to bear and must be sought out and conquered. The Lie reveals the tools we need to meet our own desires and we rush to retrieve them and pursue our personal White Stag. We willingly allow the Lie to silence the Truth which begs for our return so we can devote the entire amount of our attention to robbing Love and removing all traces of Joy. We are so easily distracted with the radiant shimmer and siren screams of our most desperate yearnings. 



We become so very distracted in fact that we knowingly  acknowledge yet refuse the desperate beaconing calls of Truth, Love and Joy as it offers Forgiveness. We only become aware of this cavern made of our choices once our treasures lay before us in ashes and embers illuminating the webs of deceit and pain which mask our beloved Truth. Rivers of bitter sorrow and failure seem the only occupants of our uttering in earnest penance.



Yet through the mass of rubble and resentment, Truth still petitions, Love still pleads and Joy still holds wide its embrace. Our dear guide, Forgiveness, willingly and urgently rushes us back to our home. Joy urges all within reach and sight to advance preparations for mending amongst the rush of bliss that we are safe again. Love races against nature itself with eyes ever fixed on us to come alongside our broken bodies dragging a beaten soul behind. As Love and Joy combine over the shell of anger and wounds to repair what little is left of us, Truth keeps an ever watchful eye to account for every fallen tear. 



In the still and calm of steady healing, Truth enters to sit beside us. Truth may appear as a dear and faithful friend or a loved one refusing to be pushed aside for our hollow pursuit of transient pleasure. But Truth never ceases to speak healing and discipline through a language only to be translated and applied through the lips of Love and Joy. Forgiveness perpetually offers its blanket of comfort as Truth, Love and Joy mend the soul we fought so ardently to control. 

And through our aided restoration, we wonder,
"Was it worth it?"



Now ask yourself this: