Thursday, June 09, 2005

Poetry Or Prose?

Another late night post, dissecting my over-burdened heart to a cyber-univerese full of complete strangers.

My life reads like a badly-written novel, with twisting plots that make no sense or have no continuity, and characters that are normal but memorable in their humanity.

The question is, is my life summed up with poetry or Prose?

Poetry has a strange mystery to it, each stanza following the last as it develops a theme of profundity, flowing, and liquid-like as idea and fantasy is quickly formed during the writing process, each theme flowing into the next, with no barriers of convention to hold it back.

Prose has all the definition of a legal document, each thought carefully selected to fit with the previous, an example of precision timing, resulting in a whole that is accurate and intended in it's meaning.

My life has been both of these things, at the moment it feels like neither.

My heart has been broken, that much is true. But the depth of it's broken-ness has increased each time, forming a small crack in my personality and outlook on life. I can feel it. The slow, dying, ragged, shallow breath of my past life, reflects a view of God and all things Spiritual that is ever so gradually becoming less and less important.

I love God, still, but I don't know what He's doing with my life. At the moment it's just aimless.

Without feature, without purpose, without guidance, without hope almost.

I hope I get this this job. I need a new start.

3 comments:

  1. "I love God, still, but I don't know what He's doing with my life. At the moment it's just aimless."

    Is it that your life is aimless, or you are aimless? Why, because you are broken, must it mean that God is less important. Has he been any less faithful to you? Or, in the breaking of your character, has he been flfilling his faithfulness, and creating in you a new heart?

    Opportunities to truly see God's work in our lives, where it is felt and bourn upon our own shoulders don't come along very often. He has gotten you this far, why would he just let you drop? In the unknown, we can find rest, because we don't have to worry about what comes tomorrow. You've been given a new start already. Don't take it for granted, and act like it.

    That said, I can identify with you. I am incrediby unsure with where God is leading me right now. I feel like he's shaking things up a bit, and it's left me feeling like I'm over the edge of a cliff with no rope. But while I'm there, this verse has come to truly mean something.

    "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Gal. 2:20

    I no longer live, but I live in faith. Even though there is no rope, I am flourishing, and after a time, I will remember/realize that I haven't fallen from that cliff even though there was no rope holding me because the cross came up and held me steady.

    I hope you can find some encouragement here, and I will be praying for you.

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  2. thanks jae.

    God is here, even though I don't feel him. I guess faith isn't based on what I feel, it's based on what I know he has been doing in me in the past.

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  3. true...too true. faith is not a feeling. it's what you do.

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