11.35

People are breathing compositions of perceptions and misperceptions. Who you are is defined not by who you actually are but instead by what snippets the viewer wants to take away from the limited bio of you he has encountered. Who you are can be formed of what you say (and not say), what you do (and not do), where you went to college (and where you didn't), who you voted for (none of your business), who you love (all of them and how much). The scarier thing is that people desire to have their being formed based upon these same things; the person in effect agrees with the viewer that being = random word/deed/belief/thought/thing.

All of that, all of it, is sheer nonsense.

Here's who I am (not): a son to two (disobedient), a father to two (absent), husband to one (selfish), fan to many (jinx), graduate (you'd tattoo this on your forehead, wouldn't you?), reader writer runner driver worker golfer collector obsessive teacher learner giver taker something

Here's who I am (am): I am wept over. I am wept over by God Himself. The Bible's (perhaps) second most famous verse is John 11:35: "Jesus wept." And this, this is who I am that means something more than a mortal wish. All else is voluntary and arbitrary; all else is shallow; all else is insignificant. But this one thing is eternal; this one thing is unchanging; this one thing born of something other than a hollow thought; this one thing says even if all else viewed and chosen and snippeted fail this one thing will remain;

this one thing says you? who?: BELOVED. BE LOVED.

Hardheart, time for you to move on 'cause it only gets centered around this one thing from here on out. The rest of the releases are for figuring out where this one thing runs.