Confusion is a product of lack of understanding. At times, confusion is formed from lack of support from those placed in our environment or lack of support from those available in our surroundings.

We live in a world where we want everything instantly [now]. This cycle eventually causes a fulfillment that is of dirt, dust/ash, and doubt. To be filled with quality sustenance requires a process of trusting that which we know to believe as well as trusting that which we believe we can someday know. Our true fulfillment (desire) also requires trusting that what we do not know is not for us to know.

I pray, hope, and trust that our hearts can receive and teach us an understanding that will keep us out of harm’s way, allow us to accept how to be still when necessary, and when to show grace as well as courage when called for.

To discern the times requires understanding. Let us no more accept confusion in the place of grace or strife in the way of acting upon love. Let us come into the understanding of mercy so as to have compassion in our eternal beings.

1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

With love,

Alicia R. Shipe