Are We Almost There Yet?

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 "Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up.  Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again." -- Randy Alcorn



When it comes to dreams, hopes, friends, plans, i have died many times.  Many deaths.  Violence is happening as though it's a natural given.  At train stations in Boston.  In schools across the country.  No state is exempt. Soon there will be events occurring at the Hub in Worcester.  i can feel it coming.  Hassles on the city buses.  Someone will open a window on a bus in the winter, make somebody else cold and angry and then they'll be a fight in the close quarters.  Innocents will be harmed or indirectly targeted.  Even the bus drivers will be in on it.  Neighbors will snap because somebody's television is too loud or a couple is creaking the bedsprings noisily doing the nasty on the other side of a thin wall.  i will die many, many more deaths before the upside-down world will be turned right-side up again.

HR is not an easy answer; but it'll do me good to be HR- appropriate.  Every in His own time.  i will know the answers to my questions.  Meanwhile it's enough just to seed the right questions, like are we almost there yet?  A beautiful question i asked from the back seat of my father's car, a different driver who knew at leat the answer to that question.  no, not yet.

Fire is a symbol of intense purity.  Fire will be the end for some and the beginning for others.  i need Your fire, i want to survive in Your presence.  i want to be pure.  i am far from it, not even close to being there.  i need You to write the rest of my story.  i don't want to write my story anymore.  i want to live with You.


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