Leprosy Soul

So let's picture our souls as something divine, beautiful almost, when we were born it was made completely in the imagine of God after all. A white page. Some would say that when you commit acts of sin, that it is like black spots forming on your soul - the white page. I'm telling you - you wish. Because then you could just use an eraser, or cover it up, I'm being metaphorical. Keep up.

Our souls are plagued by sin. A priest, quite the dramatic man, that preached in church today, said that "Leprosy is a metaphor for sin" "An illness that each of us are living with, and spreading, and unable to find a cure for" and quite like someone suffering from Leprosy, we watch our souls, the very essence of our beings fall apart, burst into sores, and we rip away at the very flesh of our oh-so-delicate humanity. And we do it for small moments of pleasure on this earth. So like the page, it isn't black spots, or black splurges of ink, rather our souls are taking flame and bits of it, is being burnt off bit by bit, until finally we are left with a fragmented version of what we once were, and ash at our feet. And there really is no way of putting something turned to ash back together - unless of course, you allow yourself to admit that this is what you're doing to your soul. And say sorry - and mean it.

I think we need to stop blaming everyone around us for our own leprosy, it's not about who infected us, but rather that we allowed ourselves to be infected. And continue to allow ourselves to fall apart, instead of fighting our own pride, and to admit that we are nothing and only He can help us.

I feel like a lot of the time, the things I write are centered on God, but I'm not going to apologize, I almost understand that I will lose people in my life because of it. I won't apologize, but I'll say excuse me, to those of you reading who don't understand, but really the center of my life is God. How am I supposed to write, when the very bases of my writing comes from Him and what He has given me?

Please let me know what you think, or if you wanna talk about anything at any point. Follow me on Twitter ok? @LynnSeale