losing the good to gain the great

someone told me once..."sometimes, we need to lose what is good in order to gain what is great."

the picture above is my leather vest. the outlines are from the colors i removed on Sat. my colors were very dear to me. i wore them with pride and loyalty. my colors were good. the MC (motorcycle club) was good. i loved the good. i could have lived my whole loving the good. i actually wept when i gave them back.

leaving something that is really good for something that may not be great just yet...is not at all easy. but in your soul, you know God is challenging you, pruning you, even killing you...so that great may live.

what will take the place of good will soon be sewn onto my leather. vision from deep calling to deep. far beyond ability, far beyond capability into the unkown landscape of faith.

deep in the soul of every believer lies the primal. original. the way it was meant to be. there is a connection we feel when we tap into it, we feel it, we know what it is. nothing touches it after that. it becomes an addiction. we need it, gotta have it.

we try to cover it with stuff, put khakies and a sweater vest on it, tame it, domesticate it, keep it in the yard. but it is buck wild and we know it. this is why there are things like a mid life crisis. this is why men are leaving the church, why we lose passion, why we try and hang on to youth.

we were created for the primal life

good just aint good enough anymore.