Shifting Sand

"Maybe this was never the place I thought it was..." -John Pavlovitz

I know this sentiment. I have lived it, both in the church and in my own home. When the life I thought I had shattered and fell away, leaving me grappling with a reality I knew not how to process, I learned that underneath the pretty veneer there is often ugliness and rot. (The old "You can't judge a book by its cover" scenario.) I still find the truth difficult to swallow... just like I did 8 years ago when a dear friend said, of my then crushed reality, "It was always this way. You just didn't know it." Wanting what I believed to be true could never bring it back. My entire world was forever altered. It is impossible to look at people with the same innocence and naivety.

I'm not sure why this photo... It was there, so I picked it.