Like A Band Aid Over a Gaping Wound

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• I thought I’d share some of my older pieces this one I wrote back in 2009…

As a society we kind of have a distorted view like what a princess is. We look to Movie stars, or woman in high positions, seeing the fame, but perhaps not seeing that many of them have a Gaping wound in their very souls.

There are times though that we seem to desire that which is not good for us. We see the things of the world and are blinded by the glitz and glammer of it all not realizing that it is going to come with a price. We become so obsessed with achieving our desires, that we forget to look for God’s plan in it all. We become like a child who throws a tantrum because they can’t have the Chocolate Cake before the meal.

Hope is a positive thing, it is one of our gifts. We are driven by our hopes and our dreams, but hope is only as strong as we allow it to be.

No matter how hard we hope, and dream, their is one simple fact that must be taken in. This world is not perfect, we were not told it would be, when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, the “perfect world ended” yet so many times Hollywood, and others try to create a fairytale world in which everything turns out perfect.

We not only try to live in an imperfect world, sometimes we try to cover our…