The Return

I would have to say as far as bloggers go...I have failed miserably. I have let my blog become infested with spiders and piles of dust over the past year of attention I have not paid towards it. But I AM BACK. And this time I vow to keep up with my words, encouragement, spiritual findings and otherwise! I guess todays post goes out to something I learned while pondering great poets from Emily Dickenson to Langston Hughes. And though non of you are in need of a history lesson, here is a short summary of Emily Dickenson's character. She was a lonely soul who spent most of her days amiss in her bedroom, keeping silent while speaking loudly through her poems. Her intent was to constantly question the need for a God, any God...any spiritual being non the less. This one spoke the loudest to me, it is called "Apparently with no suprise." And it goes like this:

"Apparently with no surprise, 
To any happy flower,
The frsot beheads it at its play,
the blond assasin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God."

If her cutting sarcasm isn't clear, then I don't know what would be. But it brings up an issue that is the number one argument and defense of the athiest's today. WHY would you worship a God whom lets terrible, terrible things happen, and not only that but approves of it...why believe in God  when good it is abruptly taken away? It is a difficult matter for us christians to be able to explain, and sometimes the answer "everything is for a reason" just doesn't satisfy them. What only God can change, is how the un-spritual see situations. We can preach all we want about good from evil, life lessons and being on the right path...but it is because we see a different world that those phrases satisfy us. We see God at work, combatting disfunction and tribulations with elation and hope. We all have Emily Dickenson's in our lives, those whom say their doubt out loud, and those who expose their distaste in actions. How do we combat this? Simply by prayer, praying that we are the best examples of HIM, and that we will uphold his righteous law for the critics and cynics to see, and there...right there will He plant a seed in them. Because we are human, we can do so much, but our father can change things with a blink of an eye, if we pray for it, it will be done. So I encourage you today, to think of one person who is without faith, send up a simple prayer for enlightenment and praise at the opportunity to help save one more. 

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