Chris' Christian Blog

June 9, 2018

"June 9, 2018" 

Prompt: "Consider a volcano and the changes it goes through over its lifetime. Write a poem or story about its experiences."

I guess in many ways my life resembled a volcano. Like a volcano I was filled with lava, in my case boiling anger, resentment, and other nastiness. I was so full of holes that I spent decades trying to find some way to fill them. Also like a volcano I was undergoing constant stress from all of the nastiness inside of me and would eventually erupt all over everybody and everything I came into contact with. I lost many friends as people would tell me in no uncertain terms to walk away and never come back. I have spent a lot of time going to many of them making amends. Some of them are dead and the only possible amends I can make to them is in being the best possible me I can be today. However this volcano has now settled down and become dormant thanks to Jesus Christ who entered my heart and changed my whole perspective. Today I preach love and forgiveness. I can preach them and mean it because I practice them. I had to forgive tons of hurt and ugliness in order to get to where I am today. If I can forgive it then I have no reason to believe that others cannot forgive the ugliness and anger that boils inside of them.

Prompt words: "
rate
triangle
death
selection
well
appear
captain
mail carrier
mechanical"

At the risk of sounding mechanical and dying a writer's death, I wanted to attempt to answer this blog prompt. I love the BCPF as much as I do BCoF forum. I wish we had a weekly blogging contest on here too. Perhaps we would get more participation. I know it would serve as an added incentive to me. Who doesn't like recognition. I always enjoy it when I receive the selection as BCoF Blogger of the Week. Well it is what it is as the cliche goes. I hope people rate me as a readable blogger. I'm relatively new at it. I write a lot about my faith. I hope I never appear to be a Bible thumper because such people even turn me off. I do worship the same triangle they worship. The triangle is the triune God made up of three Persons yet one God. I can't explain how it works. I just know that Jesus Christ is the captain and pilot of my ship. He is the mail carrier who brings my daily blessing.