The Current

A cross given is more visible than a cross held.
Where a cross stands from man, faith did not.
For inside one was weight,
And inside the other, a bullet

You cannot give or teach faith. It is forged in the fires of the soul, and only those that have solid ground to withstand the pressure, are formed into eternal beings, like diamonds and rubies and sapphires and emeralds.

Without solid grounds, pressure erupts, engulfing those around them and preserving their lives in the headlines and history like Pompeii.

Eruptions expose the diamonds and jewels, covered in dirt or encrusted in rock, waiting, for the lucky soul who finds them and breaks them open and cleans them up and sets them within their throne on the ring.

I have been baptized in water, baptized by air. I have been baptized by fire. But it will be I who baptizes the earth.