For the First of the New Year:

Thoughts about Hell!

Who has described Hell the best? Dante's Inferno? Poe? The Bible? Horror writer Lovecraft? Some modern-day film makers? Nightmare on Elm Street is actually the first film I caught glimpses of hell itself. Genuine evil was not only being depicted, but was authentically alive. 

But what is hell? Hell, scripturally speaking, is a place where God pulls away His love. The longer I live the more I realize the importance of "thoughts". Everyday thoughts. Every minute, every detail of every split second of thinking, is like you being moved on an immense galactic map of unknown proportions. The moment you stop to think, you are capturing distances and positions on that map. Hell, is where you somehow move about both a known and unknown world. Where every microscopic slice of thought pulls you, moves you, sets you traveling, carving a niche for the next thought. 

Without God's love, you 'bang' into everything on this 'map'. You stumble everywhere in constant, perpetual motion with each turning of each thought, because God is no longer there. Tumble over the vast and the small. The outsider looking in would observe a fool at his genius best, fully corrupted man in his finest hour, traveling to better and better moments of foolish and corrupted slices of time.

This is Hell...where God pulls away His love and man is returned to his far fall from perfect love.