I have a new friend. She wrote this:
> WORLD WITHIN <
by Liesl-Dana van Schalkwyk
There?s a whole other world within
where you dictate your dreams
and mix and match your imagination
your foresight, your fantasy
your so-called success and all it seemsIt?s like a little universe
where you get carried away
and all too soon you rehearse
your life, your love
your delusions of a better dayBut why this little cavern
when it is so lonely and dangerously wild?
where you can hide secret sins
and must fight to keep your expectations mildPerhaps the Creator gave us this space
to show we?re not puppets on a string
that we too have power to create and control
and to willingly submit our minds to Him
This new friend I randomly met in Sandton. With her permission I might post some more of her thoughts. I find this such a beautiful metaphor. A cavern - a cave. Where I can just be. Where I can play out the ‘what-if’s’ safely. Where I can explore, consider. And yes with the added risk of stowing away the secret sin. But isn’t that the essence of freedom and free will. If the possibility of ‘not-loving’ was not an option, would ‘loving’ have any meaning?
I think some of us don’t venture into this cave often enough. And thus don’t get in touch with the essence of our soul.
And others never step out of this cave. And the rest of us plebs view these people to live on another planet.
Challenge is to move in and out.
I love God for the freedom he gave us. Only a real God can have the strength of mind and soul, and the security in himself, to release us into that freedom.
That’s why I desire to submit to HIM.