Face the Truth
Life is slippery sometimes, and sometimes, the comfortable, safe, and easy things grease the hands to such an extent that real life can become hard to hold on to. It slips away moment by moment, attending to maintaining the status quo of an easy life. It becomes a continuing personal, physical, and even spiritual degradation process. Instead of honing skills toward peace, performance, and personal improvement at some risk, we became proficient at quickly making excuses. Self-deception and denial can become our sport and greatest skill. Small aches become perceived as big pains and small issues can take on the appearance of major problems. We try to give it a value it doesn't have. But self-deception never really works. Deep down, in quiet moments, we know the truth. We just can't confront it directly. It is just too hurtful to our comfortable little lives built on illusion. We are scared. So, I guess I want to be fearless. The Bible...