It's Out There

Often I start writing in the middle of a thought.  Random words and ideas tumble in tumultuous fashion while my fingers fly around the keyboard.  Side note: a computer is so much easier than a pen, is that right?  I certainly cannot simultaneously write quickly and well, by hand.  Since this is a blog, it almost has a better feel to start in the middle of nowhere.  It is raw and relevant and real as opposed to polished, coiffed and perhaps a bit snooty.  I feel like we know one another, dear readers, or at least, that you know me.  Perhaps you would be able to pick me out of a crowd even if we had never laid eyes upon each other.  I'm the one with expressive blue eyes in which you can read all of my soul.  I'm the one that I hope you will see down the road and off to the right, engaging in witty banter, dodging zingers, and laughing.  I hope I'm in the company of good friends.  The kind that you can slip up beside, grab a hand, squeeze, and let the silence communicate the weighted volume that words cannot.  I hope you would come up, dear friend, and introduce yourself knowing that we can probably be the oldest and dearest of friends in no time for you have shared in the pieces and parts of my life and heart through this blog.

Into this I pose a question.  Do you search for truth?  I think "truth" is a buzz word of late and there is nothing I hate more than a buzz word.  As if you can't have an original thought. As if we each, as though our life depended upon it, have to rally around one coined phrase that so-n-so thought up in yesterday's staff meeting.  Really, Guy?  That's the best you could do?  Leverage. Synergy. Alignment.  Truth is indeed a buzzword in this time in history.  I am not always convinced that it is used by its definition. 

This is what we hear.  "Find your truth."  "Know your truth."  "What is your truth?"

I can make no more true statement than this:  I am equally as interested and excited about advertisements for Spanx as I am for blueberry cheesecake and deep dish pizza.  "Oh, yes, I could use that, and yes, I could also use that and that!"  At least there is some alignment there, no?  But, is that then, my truth?  I like to eat and I realize thereby that I also should utilize Spanx.  Bam.

Nothing makes my eyes roll faster than...."know your truth" and "I found myself and my truth and that's all that matters."   It seems fairly empty headed and trite to make such statements.  Truth by definition means "in accordance with fact" and "without variation."  Thus truth isn't something that each person finds and interprets for themselves.  It is a standard without deviation.

Do you search for truth?  THE truth? Or just "your truth?"  If all you really want to find is "why do I act the way that I do?" might I suggest a therapist?  That isn't really the definition and purpose of life, that "truth" is to help you cope with your circumstances.  Don't buy into the mainstream.  Don't buy into memes, and celebrities, and colloquialisms that say this life is all about you.

Because the actual truth.  The standard without deviation.  Is that this life is so much more. 

Search for truth, dear friends, search for truth, indeed.  God put inside you a desire to know truth.  He set eternity in the hearts of men.  He is the truth.  The standard without deviation.  When you search for meaning and purpose, peace and truth.  That is where you will find it.  If along the way you happen upon some cheesecake, it's probably okay, because you'll probably find me too.