The Windblown Girl
Ungranted yet? Faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet were firmly planted on the Rock;
Amid the wildest storm prayer stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.
She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,
And cries, “It shall be done,” sometime, somewhere.
“Unanswered Yet”
Lyrics by F. G. Burroughs, 1879
Lladro’s “The Windblown Girl” figurine
Used with permission
STANDING Strong ON A Foundation of BIBLICAL Truth
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Rock Solid
Do you ever feel like life’s fierce winds might blow you around like a tumble weed? Relationships. Jobs. Illness. Financial instability. Civil unrest. Chaos. Confusion. That’s life–mine and yours.
As a teen and young adult, I watched repeated televised replays of our president, John F. Kennedy, being shot. Then his brother, Bobby, and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. The Watts riots took place in Los Angeles about 30 miles from my home. Students were shot at Kent State. America was in turmoil, and so was my personal life. My dad was declared an MIA in Vietnam. If alive, he was being tortured. I hated my job and my marriage.
The mantra at that time was “If it feels good, do it.” So, for awhile I did. And, I hurt myself so badly I never wanted to suffer that pain again. Isn’t that the same mentality today as our culture lies about our selves, sexuality, and social issues?
That’s why I turned to a relationship with Jesus Christ and exchanged cultural lies for biblical truth. As I did so, this Lladro figurine came to represent confidence, peace, and stability. She stands on the Rock of Christ with the Bible in her hands, looking toward an eternal kingdom. (You can find more of her story in my memoir, The Windblown Girl: A Memoir about Self, Sexuality, and Social Issues.)
Regardless of how fierce life’s winds blow, The Rock Solid foundation of Biblical Truth permits men and women to stand strong. So with this blog, I’ll do my best to refute the cultural lies that lead us into trouble. Hopefully the posts will encourage you to build your life on a biblical foundation of universal truths that can’t be escaped no matter how hard we try. Truths such as one day we all die. Will we live for the fleeting moment or in terms of eternity? In the meantime, we can live beyond ourselves and experience peace, love, unity, and respect in a relationship with the living God. And, that is greater than . . . anything. Even death.
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