Awakening

I started out this blog as a search for expression, a grope in the dark for something, a desperate need to share with a community of similar minds. Yes, but share what exactly? I was reading on my dear friend Tolu Oloruntoba’s blog- insula.posterous.com a beautiful piece on the dilemma of the Christian artist. Should art be for art’s sake or should it hold a deeper message, a legacy of thought to shape the minds of a generation- present or future; or should art be for profit? Should we as Christians infuse each poem with the many names of Jehovah, and write strictly about how great our lives are, Hallelujah! Amen. Meanwhile our lives secretly fall to pieces. Can we infuse our art with true divinity- while appreciating the intricacies, the perplexities, the failings and the glory inherent despite our very humanity? Can we claim that huge gulf between Sunday and the rest of the week?

Today, while in the loo it came to me while thinking of a précis of my life in the last few years for a friend I haven’t spoken to in that while- we can talk about the things we don’t dare to talk about, as young Christians growing in a fast paced, increasingly materialistic age, faced with herculean spiritual and social challenges, impossible choices, old sorrows, fresh mistakes, living through alarming consequences. I can start, by submerging my fear of rejection in hope, that someday, somewhere someone will take a leaf of courage from this page and draw some comfort.

Isaiah 55: 12 "So you'll go out in joy, you'll be led into a whole and complete life.  The mountains and hills will lead the parade, bursting with song. All the trees of the forest will join the procession, exuberant with applause.

Isaiah 55: 13 No more thistles, but giant sequoias, no more thornbushes, but stately pines--        Monuments to me, to GOD, living and lasting evidence of GOD."

(The Message)

  

This page is a celebration of Zoe and Agape, the beauty of God and His power to triumph through the lives of ordinary individuals. The pieces and discussions you will see may offend conventional Christian social thought but do stop to look again, deeper, harder. There may be a grain or two of truth if you choose to see. There will be no endorsement of sloppiness or immorality. Welcome all aboard, as many as are willing...