08/07/2023
The Hard and Beautiful Truth
-J.D.Walt
"I don't want you to think I'm not a good person."
That's what my old friend said to me
upon meeting again after decades apart
and a long confession of her broken story.
I assured her with The Hard and Beautiful Truth:
"You are not a good person.
I'm not either.
We are broken sinners."
Something deep in me (and maybe you too)
wants to believe we are good (or worse that we are bad)—
that we just need to lose twenty pounds,
drop a few bad habits, and try harder to be better.
Then I assure myself with The Hard and Beautiful Truth:
Good people and bad people is a lie
from the pit of hell,
and the way from good to great (or bad to worse)
paves the way there.
Jesus only goes from
Death to Life
Lost to Found
Slave to Free
Broken to Beautiful
Then she asked me, "If you are not good, what are you?"
"LOVED," I said.
"I am loved,
and you are too."
