Sometimes we rant.

I'm calling bull crap. 

 We as believers, cling to the ideology that we have it all together; that we are clean and healthy (spiritually) lacking in nothing. Are we not bothered by this? 

Life is hard as it is; Why must we be so fake to one another? 

Is it not biblical to be real with one another? 

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be heeled. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." James 5:16

Maybe it's just my current frustration of the season; I started this post a month ago and just now came back to it as if it were just as fresh as the day I first laid my fingers on the keys to write this. 

It is to my understanding that, yes, not everyone is the same, and I know that I am blessed daily with the gift of vulnerability and openness, so for me to expect that of everyone is wrong of me, but I cannot help but feel discouraged when countless believers rant and rave about how their life is perfect and how GOD IS SO GOOD! 

Yes, God IS good, but is he not when things are well, not? 

Is God still good when your life is less then perfect? If so, then why do we as believers leave these bits out when speaking to one another. I am guilty of the very thing in which I speak of so I too speak to myself, however it is hard to walk through life thinking, "something is wrong with me." because no one steps up and shares their similar struggle. COME ON PEOPLE, THERE IS POWER IN OUR TESTIMONY! OUR DAILY TESTIMONY!

I myself am far from being healthy (spiritually); it would just be nice to do life with people who find James 5:16 sagacious and unassailable. 

Weither many or few read this; I hope this find's you well. My prayer is that through our failures, mishaps, and struggles others may come to know the act of vulnerability and that we as a body of Christ find strength and hope, as well as forgiveness and compassion in each others shortcomings. 

In Him, 

Lauren Folk