Got Uplift?

The Christian life is transformational. When God bathes you in His Son's blood, its hard not to get emotional. Following Christ is also intellectual. It is physical, in that the Spirit's internal changing of His followers is made manifest in our actions, our love.

Yet, the soul can, and does, go dry. Mother Theresa allegedly admitted to 50 years of feeling nothing from Our Lord. Though there is a promise to buy us back from sin, there's no promise that the fount of freedom that the Spirit plants will grant us experiential joy.

The Christian life, however, does hold experiences that do surpass anything else attainable in this world. So, even though daily happiness isn't guaranteed, an otherworldly joy does blow right through a lot of the little personal floodgates we set up.

So, whether your well is dry, our you've got a joy you can't explain, let these words help raise you just a little higher:

The angels thank you
for the water.
You forgot
you gave it.

Christ crunched
Numbers in your skull
Multiplied your heartbeats
Extended your fingers for a starving darkhound to lick the salt
Lengthened your days to a sideways eight
while you slept.

Paul wrote a book about it in Code
and someone called it an
Epistle to the Romans.

It is your biography,
Like it or not. (but you like it)