The Fresh Baked Crust

Is it the stark injustices that make us human?
Is it our seeming inability to atone for our own wrongs that makes us susceptible to brokenness?
Human incompetence makes us long for something greater than ourselves.
Who are we? Millions of aimless souls searching for purpose? Discovering only the human insufficiency that is so prevalent in our self-sufficient world. 
That unsatisfactory truth makes us reach out, grasping at anything that promises fulfillment. Hopelessness, pain, misery, death; lives cut short because of the war that rages within. Refugees, orphans, rejects, widows; what is the purpose? The lies we force down, the malice we choose to accept. 
Our self-contempt and longing for a justice and truth that seems unattainable makes us cry out. From our misery, brokenness and shame. A desperate cry, focused on ourselves and our hopelessness; unknowingly mimicked by thousands thinking they’re alone.
But the truth is, we’re not alone. There’s a war raging on inside every one of us, and this war is for our souls. There is an eternal battle within us, and every choice we make either draws us closer to, or pushes us away from our maker. This fight creates a cacophony that quenches our unique song, but as we grasp the rock, as we reach out with open arms and experience his love and joy, we are made whole. The incessant qualm that affects us acts as backdrop as we gaze at the face of our Lord.

OLD HODGE YOUNG HEBREW COLLABORATION

I search for that place
The place where I thrive
The quiet stillness
That keeps me alive

I’m looking for answers
But searching in vain
Anything to keep me
Away from the pain

There’s no one I know
Who can help me persist
I fall into darkness
Into abyss

Where is that place?
The place that I can’t reach
The moment I take in
The things I teach

I feel that I’m no one
I feel sad and small
I’m purposelessly drifting 
I’m no one at all

What is my life?
I’m living a fool
It’s only so long
‘Fore I run out of fuel

How do I hurt
When I have so much?
I have all I need
Yet, I’m still out of touch

But God is still good
In the midst of my doubt
I fell into darkness
But He brought me out

Jonathan Hodge

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