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change, Christianity, discipline, God, Liar, Lie, life, Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic, Religion and Spirituality, Thought, truth
Roads paved with good intentions often lead to a predictable destination. That may very well be the story of the major portion of my life. Or, maybe I should get one of those life things before I attempt to determine its story.
Whatever the case, I am a liar. What other option is there, if any plans I make in the direction of change tend to be little more than passing acknowledgements of the need for a difference? Who else can I be when I make promises I know I can’t–and often, won’t–keep? When I’m content to see what needs to be done, but do nothing about it?
There are few poisons as potent as self-deceit. You see, it is all too easy to think that knowing something is wrong is a sufficiently significant step in the right direction. Some of us, present company topping the list, never take another step. How natural it is to sit and nurse the idea of disturbed equilibrium, weaving it into a grand quest (complete with the requisite slaying of dragons), only to have it stay there and become nothing but an overgrown obstacle. Welcome to my world.
I’ve had quite a few people tell me I know what’s wrong with everyone but me. Comforting as that notion may be to those holding it, it is so erroneous that it is almost laughable. Fear not, I know what’s wrong with me (or have a good enough grasp of the extent of my dysfunction)…I’m just not particularly inclined towards doing anything about it. What does that make me? Not just a liar, actually. It makes me full of–ehem, overflowing with excrement.
Usually, at this point, I’d launch into some lovely truths about God and the fullness of grace. For me, those are not the platitudes they can so easily double as. But, today, doing so would serve only to cement what is the point of this post.
I. Am. A. Liar. And that, my friend, is the truth.
Jr said:
I once started a poem “We philosophize then do nothing about it, that makes us failed architects. Cause in the confines of our minds we have the tools to shape our lives….” but really and truly i’m just a liar too, one who seeks refuge in philosophical ideas that i truly have no intentions of executing. Maybe now confronted with the reality of who I am I will so despise it that I will have no other choice but to act….
Lori said:
JUNIOR! Thank you so much for your thoughts. Good stuff. Always knew you had a way with words. 😛
I’m not sure how much of a motivator hating stuff about ourselves is (it just doesn’t work for me. Lol.), but I wish you all the best. Thanks again! Blessings.