Thursday, June 23, 2005

Bring the Children Home

Hey all,

I am sorry that I have not posted in a long while, I have finally recuperated from finals, and have some time on my hands to write again. I hope to keep updating regularly, so, keep coming by "y'all."


For the past several months, God has been teaching me about Love. Love that goes beyond what most of us even call love. Love that is honor, love that is true, love that simply is.

Some of the lessons have been humbling in the fact that they were things that I had thought I already knew, things that I was sure that I had perfected already, but instead they were that I had only begun to comprehend. Even now, I have become certain that someday God will bring me through these lessons again, and they will again show me how little I know about what is "real beyond real."

Recently (June 13th, 2005) though, Liege apparently decided that it was time to expand my studies. I was praying, praying deeply about the true Love that God has for us, praying that God would teach me to Love, when He whispered to me. He whispered a simple line, at the time it was seemingly nothing fantastic, but in the past two days, every lesson that my Liege has taught me coincide with Love and/or that line. He said, "Bring the children home."

Bring the children home, it seems such a simple line, four words, and a concept that is not fantastic, yet it is a cornerstone of what the Bible is. Ever since we first sinned, God has been in a spectacular war, and epic battle, to bring the children home. Bring the children home. It is a command given only to those who are trusted.

If my sister was on the other side of the globe, there are less than a dozen people to whom I would entrust them to bring the child home. I have a hard enough time trusting most people to drive her across town! But it is a command that comes with trust. It comes with an expectation that the job will be fulfilled completely. There is no margin for error, no half-hearted attempts, instead it is something that must be given your all, my all, we who have been called to bring the children home must not give it less than our all.

In a rough parallel, my family recently watched a movie entitled, "Are We there Yet?" In that movie, a mother entrusts a friend to bring her two children over the state line to her. After watching it, I began to sypathize with Moses. The friend's (I can't remember his name) job was simply to bring the children to their mother, and the children were less than enthusiastic with this friend, whom they called "The Enemy."

This guy had to give it his all to get those two kids to their mom, destroying his new car, being tackled by securiy officers in an airport, jumping off a moving train, getting attacked by truck drivers and their trucks, etc. And yet, he never gave up. He gave it his complete all, he held nothing back.

So in many ways, to "Bring the Children Home" is not a simple thing. We must give God our all, even when it means that we must have nothing left. I am, by nature, a video gamer. But in that field, there are two things that I must constantly keep checks on. First, I must not play a game and bring dishonor to my God through it. There are many, many games that I would want to play, but to play them would bring dishonor to my God, my Love, my Liege. Second, I must always keep them as a minimal influence on my life. If I play a game that forces me to change my character in a detrimental way, it is not worth it to even consider playing. To quote someone whose name I can't remember, "Be who you is, because if you be who you a'int, you a'int who you is."

Even more recently (June 22nd, 2005) God called me on this calling. The calling to give all we have and all we are, even if we must loose what we desire most.

There is an old song that says that we have decided to follow Jesus, and there is no turning back. There truly is no turning back. Let us give our lives so that we live in such a way that we can keep God's calling, and Bring the Children Home.

My friends, here's to Keeping it Real. May our lives be a reflection of that which is Real beyond real, of heaven, and of our Love, Lord, God, Father and Liege. Let's keep it Real.
-David Shore

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

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