Showing posts with label contrasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contrasts. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Faith is


After 2 Corinthians 6:3-13

It’s not a warm electric blanket
she said it’s the cross
it’s troubles and hardships,
he said it’s beatings and prison,
it’s insults and taunts
it’s watching your reputation
trashed it’s being considered
an imposter it’s being dishonored
and lied about it’s sorrow
and poverty it’s ridicule
it’s having nothing it’s also

glory and encouragement it’s
protection and endurance it’s
understanding and purity it’s
kindness and patience it’s
rejoicing and righteousness it’s
possessing everything

it’s life the only way life
makes sense it’s rebirth
it’s salvation it’s the rock


Photograph by Hanny Naibaho via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Friday, December 29, 2017

A life of opposites


After II Corinthians 2

We live in affliction
we experience the comfort
we live in suffering
we experience relief
we live in pain
we experience grace
we live in darkness
we experience the light
we live in self-reliance
we experience dependence
we live in poverty
we live in ugliness
we live in hurting
we experience richness
we experience beauty
we experience healing

The life is made bearable
by the experience


Photograph by Tom Barrett via Unsplash. Used with permission.