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A life that excites, transforms, and brings meaning

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  • Jun 23, 2021
  • 3 min read

Updated: May 23

I am now walking with Him through what I think is a man’s city: it is mostly old, with the occasional glass skyscraper. What is overwhelming is the number of people, the traffic, the busyness; everyone moving through what they are concerned with, oblivious to our presence. The air is full of either the sunlight’s dusty haze or a slight pollution; I can’t tell. We continue to walk, then move above the ground, travelling faster through the city. It is unchanging. It’s so large, so untouching no feeling, no connectedness, no joy, no sense of home.



I am not seen nor known among many men. They are somewhat aware, but uncaring. Yet I walk among them; I care for them. They move as one: with lives of purpose and direction, of being, of accomplishing. Yet there is no joy; it is being as gray no color, no splash of awakening, as if this is life as it was meant to be. There is a wonder sometimes if there could be something more, yet this life seems to have a movement of its own, and the thought quickly returns to the place it has come from.

But I have come among men to bring light, color, joy, and a life within Me that would excite and transform and bring meaning to life that men would love it, and desire more. You have experienced a small part of what can be, and if you pursue Me with your whole heart, you will have this ‘true’ life revealed that would overwhelm so much you will cry for more, yearn for more, want it all. And I will give it as you desire.


Most people are not lost.


They know where they're going.

They show up.

They produce.

They have direction.


And somehow — none of it feels like anything.


On gray lives. And the color that's already there.🧵

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There is a particular kind of invisible.


Not the invisible of failure.


The invisible of someone who sees clearly —

who cares, genuinely —

while the people around them move forward

toward things they can't quite name.


You know this feeling.

You have been here.

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Gray doesn't look like despair.


It looks like:

Direction. Purpose. Accomplishment.

A life that works.


With a quiet, recurring question that never quite gets answered.


Is this it?

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The thought arrives sometimes.


Could there be more?


Then the current life picks back up.

The schedule. The task. The role.


The thought goes back to wherever thoughts go

when we decide not to follow them.


Nobody talks about the cost of that.

The unlived question.

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What if everything that was missing from

your life was not lost —


but waiting?


Not as reward.

Not as achievement.


Present.

Surrounding you.

Caring about you.

Wondering when you'd want it.

Want Him.

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The offer is color. Not as metaphor. As experience.


The moment something clicks and you feel awake — genuinely awake — in a way the gray life never allowed.


You've had a taste. Most people have. They called it luck. A good day. Coincidence.


It wasn't random.

It's Him.

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Here is the only condition for a life not gray:


Whole heart.


Not perfect execution.

Not the right credentials.

Not having it figured out first.


Whole heart.


Most people never bring that to anything.


Which is why most people never find out

what life is actually capable of returning.

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The return — if the pursuit is real —

is the kind of overwhelm that makes you cry.


Not from sadness.

From finally knowing.


You will yearn for more.

You will want it all.


His offer doesn't run out.

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Gray is not the default.


It is the cumulative result of a small decision, made daily: to let the question return to wherever it came from.


Color is still there. The life that makes you love being alive — is still waiting for you.

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