TRUTH SERUM

TRUTH SERUM

Is truth like rubber,

Infinitely flexible

Without breaking?

Or is truth like a diamond

Multi-faceted

Refracting pure light

Into many colors?

Or is truth like a brick wall

Unyielding

Something you run into

At your own risk

Realizing you’ve reached a boundary

That should not be crossed?

Or is truth something ineffable

Something you discover by accident

While in the process of loving someone?

Or is truth unattainable

Something that is clearly out there

And yet you can never full grasp it?

Or is truth irrelevant

To ordinary day to day life

Something only brought up

In rare and necessary circumstances,

When a cure or a conviction is needed?

Is truth bendable

And does it matter when it’s bent or manipulated

What changes when that happens?

Or is truth an absolute,

Such that there is no such thing as

My truth or your truth, but only THE TRUTH

Which is universally the same for everyone?

Is truth something that is discovered or recovered

Or believed and received

Does it come like a stone through a plate glass window

Shattering the previous status quo?

But what if truth is a person,

A great I AM.

What if it’s not an idea or an abstraction

But a being, in fact THE Being

That founded all things?

What if in the beginning was the Truth

And the Truth was with God

And the Truth was God,

A God to whom all are answerable?

What if no clever questions like

‘What is truth’?

Can help a person escape

The claim truth has on them?

What if the alienated

Must make a truce with truth

And the lost must allow themselves to be found

And the jaundiced must be surprised by joy?

What if the truth can indeed set you free?

But free from what, or whom?

Is freedom just freedom from, or is it also freedom to, or more importantly freedom for?

What if we are being pursued by truth

All the while we are trying to catch up to it.

And this is so because He is full of grace and truth?

And he tells the truth, the whole truth,

And nothing but the truth.

No shadow of turning,

No changing his mind

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

BUT ALAS…OUR WORLD IS SUFFERING FROM A SERIOUS CASE OF TRUTH DECAY

LORD HAVE MERCY,  CHRIST HAVE MERCY.

BW3

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