Form Me

Beautiful like a piece of freshly cooled glass, just out of the fire, blown into it's perfect shape. Unlike it you are strong, as strong and fierce as iron fresh from the furnaces that temper it. This is such a definition of you. You are beautiful and soft to the touch but you are as strong as the strongest iron, protecting yourself and your people from the darts that would attack. Though I break, though this vase busts you are constant. No one can destroy you, your beauty, your terrible beauty. So take me immaculate one and utterly destroy me and remake me O potter. Make me what you would want to be, so that by me the world can see the work of the chief architect. Take me, break me, spin me, and melt me all so that I may be molded, formed, and dried into what you will. Take out these imperfections that get in the way, hallelujah to the chief architect! Praise his handy work! It is made of the finest materials and it endures though the wind and waves may dash at it. Hallelujah to he who formed me!

"For this is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land." -Haggai 2:6

A Definition of Love

Our world has so many different definitions of love. The culture that surrounds us tries to tell us what love is. But what's awesome? I know what real love is!

An overused word, used at the drop of a hat so that it has lost it's meaning. It's definition confused. Love and lust were never meant to be confused one for the other. We assume that since there is a strong emotion behind what we're feeling towards someone that, that emotion must be love. For as it has always been said love conquers all and therefore is strongest of all emotions. While true don't blame the emotion you're experiencing on love. We've grown up in a generation that has fooled itself, but what reason had we to not? Our parents generation was just as corrupt. But that doesn't cut it. We can't unload the blame on our parents generation, though they did misinterpret the word. We try to put an elaborate mist around love and make it mysterious and hard to figure out it's meaning. The meaning of love is simple. A tree. Within a tree, the meaning of love was found. And unlike what we have come to call love this is unconditional, and no matter the situation it never changes. So the only unfathomable question that could be in the heart is why. Well, doesn't a father always love his children?

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." -1 Corinthians 13:4-8

photo courtesy of Caitlin Sattler