Half-hearted love…

…leaves a whole lot of hurt.   

Just ask that guy over there, the one being interviewed by E!

Look at him.  Reclining on his yacht.  Sipping tea from the hand of the blond in the thong.  The man has everything the world says is something.  

A lawyer on his left, a chef to his right, and a camera in his face.

“If you could give our listeners one piece of advice, what would it be?”

The man squints a far off gaze.  

His eyes are sad.  

He’s looking past his billions and his buildings, past  poetic creations and diplomatic coups…

To a time when he was young.

     …before his mind was divided.  

         …when his heart was fully fastened to God.

“When I was a boy in my father’s house…”

Solomon loved God as one among many.    

Do you?

If you think you can give God a part, then you will part with what you think you keep.  

You cannot trade with God.

Solomon tried to trade his trust for wisdom’s whims.

And though his passion found expression, his twilight poureddepression… into that empty space that once belonged to God.

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