Awaken Oh Sleeper, Rise From the Dead

“Each one sees what he wants to see

Each one sees the same thing differently.”

Origin unknown 

When the Bible is read,

the context within which

and the person through whom

one chooses to perceive,

are crucial factors

in determining what one hears.

The projection of meaning 
both onto the words,

and historical circumstances,

are functions of the perceptions one holds,

and through which one chooses to believe,

what is true.

It is upon these determinations, 

these choices,

that those who walk in darkness

unaware,

build and shape the prison

within which they are prepared for slaughter.

This is not the "rock" 

upon which the Messiah 

is building his Church,

the eternal body 

the gates of hell 

can not prevail against.

Our incessant failure 

to deduce the truth

about the facts,

rather than accepting  

as true

the story 

we contrive about the facts,

is the
mental handicap

we suffer

for choosing to live life through the person

we pretend to be,

rather than incarnating who and what

we truly are.

Until we break out

of the mental prison of our own making,

this structure we have each

constructed and adopted,

under the deluded guise 

of and for our own security,

the cocoon

that is harboring us,

opposing us, and restricting us,

we will continue to walk in our sleep,

oblivious to the reality

of where we are,

and of who and what we are,

within the spiritual dominion

all around us,

all through us,

all the time.