I Got New Glasses

"Maybe this year Love will appear deeper than ever before"-- a Christmas song

---

So I got my new glasses. That means a new way to see... a healthier way to see. I will get new perscription sunglasses later, too, and then hopefully a picture posted as well.

As with all things that live, there is a definite life cycle. You can see this phenomenon in anything from food to animals, and even on the earth itself -- though the earth renews itself at a different pace, it doesn't just die; maybe we should look into learning from that.

As humans, living animals, we go through change all the time. There is a definite life cycle in progress from the time we are born to the time we die. It is a process not only found in our physical bodies, but also in our spiritual ones as well. Along with this process there are many dangers to be faced. One of which is stagnation. In the spiritual sense, stagnation would occur as the result of some misdirection of energies, stopping their movement between God and man. They lay wasted, off to the side, in some pool of disembodied hope and false love. What do we have to say for things like this? Perhaps the words anti-depressant, psychotherapy, counselling, electroshock-therapy, or jail sound familiar to you? These words are what man has created as a cure, but these do not cure what is missing, and that is the Love of God.

Not just any love will do, you see, but it is the crippling need for God's Love, a Love that never fails and is always True, that creates these stagnations. They do not happen on their own, no. It is deception by the enemy that causes such events, such dams in the river of life which connects us to our Creator. 'One little shortcut here will help you out,' he says sweetly; 'You do not need this,' or 'Only you can help this person out; only you have the power to save them from themselves.' And it is a lie similar, or the very same, that constricts our flow. Maybe not at first, for within the things whispered to us -- save the first listed among a few left out -- one can see that these are truly innocent, honest and meaningful desires. Perverted in anyway by the devil and, though it be left unsaid here, we know, it will always go awry.

I write these things not for you; not so that I can say to you, "Listen, and learn." No, me, I write these things for me; that I may know and learn and listen and grow. And if you happen across these things, and you do read it, please keep me and those around me in prayer. Please ask that the lies of the enemy be erased from my fragile frame, and that I am given strength for going forward, and ever upward.