STEMS

The sprouts of the heart that reach out to our fingers. They are the stems of our real desires.

Not the words we say, but the ones that deeds that truly reflect what we believe and value.

Hard to appreciate how so many ignore the truth on this subject. Their actions contradict what they say.

But they keep saying it anyway. The heart just never is able to honestly embrace the reality of such hypocrisy.

It is as if we say something different it will make what we lie about become truth. And what is truly sad is how we keep doing it even when it doesn't work.

Just so hard to truly avoid this as a habit. It just feel so good to make it become the truth and to hope it will be what others accept.

Course it never really is. Instead it becomes the contrast that truly discredits. And we complicate it by adding my lies to the process.

However, this never produces any long term benefits. It merely adds to the image that believers are by nature hypocrites.

And often this ends with only adding to the justification some give for hating the faith. Which never truly improves anything.

How hard it is to take off one's mask. To truly look deep into the truth and see the sinner that was always there.

We aren't so appreciative of that view. Never grateful for the portrait no matter how accurate it is.

God' spirit truly does make us take a hard look at that real image. And the stems we try to not see.

Sometimes He will prune them, others He will transform them. So that in the end we truly flower by His will.

Such is the nature of what is meant to be for a follower of the Lord. Pity it is when pride gets in the way.

It is the legacy we can truly do without. But not always are able to do so with the right perception.

How blessed is the soul who puts faith before bragging.