Truth

Truth or fiction.

Honesty or lies.

It’s funny how sometimes the loudest voice is what we hear. How the lies screamed at the top of someone’s lungs can dwarf the truth being whispered on the wind. How we can look at something and see exactly what it is and have someone try to tell us that it’s not that, to change the picture. To make it look like a lie is the truth. To make it look like something that is not healthy is healthy.

The narrative is shifted from one of honesty and integrity to a barrage of insults and slurs meant to make the truth seem irrelevant.

We get to choose. Choose to live in light and truth or to live in darkness surrounded by lies.

And sometimes it’s not even about lying, sometimes it’s just hiding in the darkness. Knowing that surely if it’s not said it’s not a lie.

Truth is hard. To walk in truth means to walk the narrow gate. It means to take what is ahead of us, what is around us and what we’ve walked through already, our past, and to continue to navigate through the flaming arrows, the insults, the hurts and still try to hold our head up as we seek Honesty.

That means doing the hard things. There’s a author recently who wrote a book about the 2%. Those who are willing to do the hard things. Sometimes the hard things just seem impossible, like we would never be able to walk through them. They may lead to a lot harder path ahead, but they also lead to freedom. The path to freedom is not one of ‘Easy’. It takes stepping outside of ourselves and realizing that some things we have to do just are not comfortable. But if we want to see the clear blue skies on the other side of the horizon, we have to walk through the mess. And sometimes there’s a shitty mess in front of us - big donkey pile of mess.

Over and over, whether it be through science, the philosophers, biblical faith, there is the search for truth. Often times the truth is hidden behind the lies. Behind the misdirections and bloated statements from hurt souls - hidden by oppressive mentalities. But the truth is still there. It is still evident. It is still powerful and it is still necessary.

Truth will set you free. 

Just like when you’re walking a path late at night, you would never go without a flashlight, walking this path of life without truth is like walking blind. You may think you know where you’re going, but eventually you might just step off the edge of the cliff. Falling into the abyss.

Seek truth - even if it’s hard. I think it was probably pretty hard to look out on the people he loved and see them spitting at him, taunting him all the way to the tree…

Breathe -

And find peace hidden amidst the lies. Truth in the storm.

~ Peace

The Burtle