Avoid Life's Pretty Wallpaper & Get Filthy

By Evan Sanders


Love the intrinsic craziness in real things. Without a little uncertainty, it's going to lack depth. Without depth, you're going to skim the border of what's really possible for you. Without finding your best stuff and what creates your foundation, expansion and fulfillment will look like a distant dream. You see, there's an inclination to become romanced with the quick and easy, but that's not where the magic is. The magic lies deep within the depths. The magic takes some soul spelunking. The magic...is in diving out of the boat completely and diving deep down into unexplored waters all while having unbreakable faith that you are going to find a pocket of air on the way down.

Uncertainty? Embrace it.

When you consider it, we reside in a world absolutely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently cracking apart and colliding together. It's a miracle that we are even able to function with everything occuring around us. Some find their way early and others spend their entire lives searching for some kind of personal meaning that will give them direction. We hunt down guidance, wisdom, and consume great amounts of material to help us attempt to sound right out of all this. What is the point of the journey I am now on? Who am I while traveling on it? This uncertainty can seduce us into attempting to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality in order to help us understand ourselves. Do not get me wrong, I'm all about life quotes and the tiny tidbits of knowledge they can divulge to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for a big disaster. Surface level foundations never work...try building a home on wallpaper.

And that's truly what all this shallow surface level stuff is when it boils down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to appear all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is grimy. Life can often be vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees whenever it feels like it. Regardless of how much you try avoiding particular things taking place, life acts as a professional dart thrower, hitting it's target each time - regardless of how fast it's moving.

But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they are not wallpaper in the slightest. They have some madness to them. They are hard to predict, a bit crazy and frequently totally astonishing. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you are down. It's a bit chaotic, but that is the point. The chaos is the beautiful part. The chaos is the art. When you start to live in that place, your entire life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you start to understand you have a role to play in this world, you can start to develop the faith driven hand of the painter.

But you have to get dirty first.

Roll around in the dust. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have created across the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that's absolutely going to be the location where you build your life. It is now time to build it over again and do the work you've always been frightened to do.

What's life without any risk? Just surviving.




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