It's been about one year since I moved to the DFW area from the RGV; within that time span some of my perceptions of reality and society have been fine tuned, refined, or both. Many things that I were once thoughts are now desires. Many things that were desires did not come into fruition or have all but withered away. This season of Eternal Spring, of growth, has shed off dead aspects to allow stronger, evolved, and renewed fragments to flourish into grandeur gardens.
This new year, 2017, is a Year of Victory. Victory over hindering ideals, victory over obstacles beyond what eyes can see, victory over battles wrought with loss. It is a year of overcoming the sins past generations. I spent the year of 2016 surviving and letting go of personal endeavors in order to establish something far greater than before. Not for my sake, but for the sake of others too. In doing so I found a glorious peace that cannot be duplicated or comparable to anything forged by imperfection.
This peace is what will allow me to sail through raging waters and fly through rough skies. This peace will allow me to press on against impossible odds. It will allow me to operate on a path that not many can venture. There are a multitude of things in this world that can slow me, but none will stop me because I do these things through and for Christ. With a weak body and a strong spirit I have so far thrived on almost nothing through the grace of God.
Victory comes at a price. Having let go of almost all that I am, I intend on surrendering my humanity to pick up armors and weapons to protect and serve, and gather my friends and allies to give the Enemy a Hell on Earth until I can no longer fight and must be laid to rest. And in that deep sleep, my only wish is to hear from the voice of God, if only a whisper, "Well done, good and faithful servant...", and wait for the next adventure of a life time.
Amen.
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