VIVIR

"For the thief comes to kill, and steal, and destroy. I came that they may have LIFE and have it abundantly."

I have a problem with Christians.

I have a problem with myself.

I write this blog because the more I see, the less I know. I don't know what it means to live "abundantly", to practically live out this Christ life. The more I see of  Christianity the more confused I become about Christ. I suppose I see it like a simple silver ring. So very... not complex and at the same time beautiful in its gleaming simplicity. Yet over time through the motions of life that ring becomes tarnished. Gunk starts to build up. This gunk takes away from its purity and hides its heart.

This is what Christianity has done to our Christ, we have taken a simple, sweet message and begun to add our own "gunk", rules, regulations, theology, doctrine, ideas, translations... in the end we can no longer see what lies underneath. What once was truth, silver and pure, is now a notion of our greater "understanding", forever tarnishing the freedom hidden beneath.

So how does one live in the midst of Christianity? How do you see Christ, truly see him, when we have all the answers?

 Do we even know what it means to live?