Bold Desperation

An immediate eternity
when you realize
there is nothing left to lose
except everything

Can a single moment
transform entirely
a life scarred from living
without healing?

Every soul reaches a point
of bold desperation.

Faced with the choice:
reach for that with no hope of obtaining
or
resign to a life of meaningless be-ing

I choose a life of Bold Desperation.

~ June 27th, 2007

What is it about God that attracts desperate people. The Bible is filled with stories of people coming to God out of their desperation. Hannah, the bleeding woman, Naaman, the list goes on. Why do people try everything in their power first? And why is God the one thing people reach for the most for healing? Could it be because he, alone, actually has the ability to grant us what we are desperate for? I say yes, because each of us has been desperate at some point in our lives, whether we know what we are desperate for or not. Thousands of years God has been the one who people turn to. So many come to God thinking "what do I have to lose" and those who walk with him realize that in that moment of desperation they have lost everything. It's the great paradox of our faith, we come to God thinking we are empty and broken and he takes us and dumps out all the garbage we have been filled with and then he shattereds us. Then he carefully reforms us and refills us with his goodness. The thing for believers is that we must continually live in a moment of bold desperation. Knowing the thing we desire is hopelessly beyond our grasp yet reaching for it all the same, with a faith that says "just maybe God will hand it to me after all."