What does it mean to be alive?

What does it mean to be alive?

Where does instinct supersede awareness?

How does one bridle the bestial if not at the source of impulses?

How does one learn the self if one is always shaping it for others rather than looking inward with honesty?

Mirrors one and all—and the greatest love of this generation, and generations past, has been the self. The glory of our own magnificence becomes the light we blind ourselves with unless we drag it willingly through the mire and show its faded, tattered truth.

Living is not about self. It begins with self, yes, but only to lead the self toward heart, and heart toward Spirit. This is how life was designed and there are no shortcuts.

Living is not chasing temporary pleasures that evaporate the moment they’re tasted.

Living is this: an invitation to learn Love in a realm where Love bears a cost in tears, flesh, and heart. It is discipleship—learning some small measure of Yeshua’s own way.

Living is more than pleasure. Living is Love manifested as mercy, stretched until the final soul slips through the narrow gate.

Living is blood and bone, tears and loss, carried with purpose toward a worthy end.

How do we escape the love of our own reflection while avoiding the ugly we all carry?

This is the hardest part. To look straight into the mirror and admit the truth: we fail ourselves, we fail our intentions, and sin unmasks us. It is terrifying to say aloud, “I am not who I pretended to be.”

So we hide. We perfume the rot. We join circles that won’t challenge us. We tell ourselves we are better than we are. But the truth keeps pressing.

We didn’t want to be ugly—and yet we had to admit we were. That confession became the triage Yeshua used to start our real living. Only when we stripped the masks and dropped the gilding did the pathway return us to the Father.

You don’t want to be ugly either. But admitting smallness is often the doorway into what is beautiful, lasting, and true.

We invite you into our confessed ugly. Walk with us toward the future worth staking meaning upon.

As always, take what feels true to you.