The Bleed

Every single deed that has ever broken His holy law and tarnished His beautiful world and damaged His image bearers---every one of those moments will be answerable to God. Every tear and every sighing sorrow for my wrongs, whether through things I have done or had done to me---each one will be sought out by the God who is perfect justice, truth, mercy, and love.

~ David Gibson, Living Life Backwards: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live In Light of the End

Past and present, collectively and alone, we have all been witness to evil. We have watched darkness bleed into light. We've been gripped by it ourselves. We have seen beauty drown. We've been privy to wickedness. We've been the evil-doers. We've asked every why in the book. We've surrendered to this seeping black. We've looped the knot of our own noose.

"Under the sun," in this age, its absence will never be felt. Darkness will bleed into these pages until Light returns. But even a moth in the air of a jet black night, moves toward the light, however faint, however dangerous. Giving in's the easiest thing in the world, so let's encourage each other to seek that glow, Light that for us, means life.

Because one day, the bleed won't stand a chance.