A Peaceful Revelation

I find it funny. The overwhelming revelation of it all. It's almost as if the feeling rushed over me and the realization is blossoming into a massive garden. By now you must be wondering what "It" I could be talking about. I am referring to the views of this world.
It's funny how many people go through life seeing only what the mainstream media has to offer. They scream, "Life is chaos! The world is doomed! The sky is falling!", but when you take a few steps back and just breathe you'll find yourself dreaming. Not only dreaming, but seeing the world for what it really is. You begin to see it through God's eyes.
Yes, there is war, violence, disease, and disaster, but is that all the world ever is? Have we become to enveloped in sorrow and pain that we've gone numb to anything else this planet has to offer? God certainly wouldn't want it that way. He doesn't place the world in front of us so that we can live in fear...He places it in front of us so we know that he exists and can live in adventure!
I think in silence and feel air flowing across my back, but as I think the wonders of this world are revealed. Those visions of far off places bring me peace and they bring me hope. Sitting in the backyard of a villa in Tuscany with only the company of a few birds, a gorgeous vineyard of grapes, and the pages of a fantasy novel sprouting more dreams in my mind. Meandering the streets of Rome and leaving no statue unseen. Exploring the fields of Florence. Seeing Ireland and the never ending green that has been set there.
When we step away from the panic and discord we witness a more brilliant world, not full of anger or depression, but filled with passion, love, and beauty. So, perhaps the sky isn't falling. I find that the world of chaos is an illusion, for the most part that is, but the world of adventure, of life, of brilliance...now that's reality. It sits right in front of us for the taking...An adventure bestowed to us by God. Will you take it? Or will Fear reside within your heart? Just remember this...Fear is indeed an illusion of doubt, but Courage is for certain.

Summers Passed

I can feel it. The smell in the air of barbecued food and bone fires. I can hear the sound of six string guitars playing in the wind. I can taste the water falling from the sky as the monsoons sweep across the desert. I can see the sun bursting into shades of orange as it hits the horizon at the end of a long day. The breeze feels warm and I feel nostalgia seeping into every corner of my mind. The days when I used to run, play, and laugh with the old faces. Back in time when I was growing and had no worries of the adult world. I long for those summer days when I felt invincible and I was able to do anything.
Those summer days are what kept me going. They are what kept me human. Perseverance found me one summer day with inspiration following close behind. A story had started then...A story of a young man and his destiny, but that's not the only one that began that day. Another story came to be...The story of a boy, his dreams, and the inner world they had become. Beach, Forest, Mountain, and Sky...all combined to create the essence of this boy's imagination and source for his creations. One day this boy grew...as we all must do. He is a man now and lives among the darkness of the adult world, but holds on tightly to the world still deep inside...The world from his child times. At day this man dreams of infinite possibilities and at night he catches fire flies by a grand oak tree with the ones he loves.
How those summers just passed right by, but there are many more to come and many dreams to still be dreamed. So, where shall the journey of life lead this man? Only God knows and that...The man surely trusts in.