Over the past year or so, I have had many thoughts and ideas and feelings and hurts and happinesses that I have wanted to write about but not have been able to properly convey in writing.

These things include but are not limited to: love, hopes and aspirations, feeling forgotten, growing old, my weaknesses, isolation as a defense mechanism, wanting to be known, wanting to be nameless at the same time, and something that some people would find unexpected: my growing loneliness and continuing struggle with it.

Not just topics I know I want to talk about, but things I have already thought very extensively about or had even wrote lengthy posts about, only to never post them online.

For years, I had posted my thoughts about various topics online in hopes of offering whoever reads ‘em some lesson from what I have learned.

Now, I feel that where I am in my life can no longer be conveyed in these posts of simple words and writer-to-reader interactions. It is with this realization that I feel it is a good time to politely end this blog and invite all those who reads this to teach me and discuss with me the topics of my heart and the topics of yours too.

Gchat, fb chat, aim, call me, text me, visit me, invite me over, smoke signals, anything. I want to talk to the people in my life now, and with each passing day, the more and more I believe that i not only want to, but that I need to.

Talk to you soon,
Earl Duque

is Faith.Hope.Love

Let all three overflow.

“No one is ever completely ready for life. We are never completely in control. This is exactly the situation that makes for a life of faith. It also makes for a life that is more uncomfortable and yet more complete with a community of companions. Someday this may mean…”

“Exploring the lifelong possibilities with a friend can be a tremendous exercise of faith. In getting to know someone, you get to know yourself better. Learning to trust God with new feelings … can help make your relationship with God more honest.”

“What about ‘being ready’?

…Ready for what?

…Will we ever be that ready? Christians are called to “walk by faith, not by sight.” We cannot live by faith and eliminate life’s unpredictable emotions, vulnerabilities or temptations. We can learn to trust God with the risks and realities of life that are part of the human condition. We can learn how to be wise and not foolish about those risks and realities. We can learn, during times when emotional injury, relational vulnerability and temptation are real, that God is the greater reality.”
Regardless, I’m Still Quite Scared.
From True Love in a World of False Hope by Robbie Castleman, rearranged for personal meaning by me.

Alt.

When did love become a matter of complications?
A dose of exasperations,
A taste of hurting situations and quick exacerbations?

When did love become a series of steps?
Steps treading lightly going nowhere,
Getting you to places we never did dare?

When did love become selfish?
Dashed with prudeness,
Tarnished by crudeness, filled with prudence?

When did love stop moving in leaps?
Looking back at progress and seeing none
Loving only those we’ve already loved.

When was it decided that love should shy
Away from life and into strife,
Away from light and rightfully die?

When did darkness decide that it had the right
to complicate love without a fight.

For we fight a battle that’s already won,
Thus it is our choice to reclaim true love.

Darkness cannot decide it had this right,
For we have a choice to choose into light.

Thus darkness is wrong,

For Love is simple, Love is kind.
Shout out to Sol for inspiration!

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