perspective – Living Outside the Boat

Time is a resource, not a right.

The hardship of life has embedded into us a hankering for a job that leaves you with more than half an hour a day to enjoy our existance. Wanting to have some spare time to do the things you love is not wrong. But because of the pain of work costing so much life, we…

He wept.

Lazarus is dead, He said. “My friends, this is an opportunity for you to see who I am; …to learn to trust Me. Come, let’s go see him”, He said. But all they heard was: “we’re going back to the place where they threatened to kill us” “Let’s go so that we can die with…

Another November.

Oh, how time merges with life in such a way that you can barely feel your passing through it. Here I am, 34 Novembers and counting. There has been so much life lived, so many things seen, so many people befriended and a huge number of feelings felt that I can hardly believe that it’s…

Echo

Today I couldn’t help but wander into an echo of the past. Where time was slow and the sound was tunned. Where you worked from sunrise to sunset, but somehow throughout the day you still had leeway to dream, room to breathe. And at the end of the day you had a sense of fulfillment…

Hey David, I have your words.

What a wild thought! You lived on Earth thousands of years agoYet here I am, holding your words.And not just me, but the whole world,From one end to the other! You bled your heart out on that paperAs you dug yourself from despair’s depthAnd dove yourself with immense expectationInto The One Who Holds Your Heart…

Dear brain,

Why won’t you believe God? What makes you a better judge than Him? Is it experience? Who made her God? Is it your judgement? Who made you God? How come you think that “you” is all there is? What about feelings? What about imagination? What about the unknown things? The world is so much bigger…