Chris' prayer: Ginny Owens' "Run to You"

I used to see the world in black and white
Now I find myself lost in a fog of gray

The first line describes how I used to look at my faith perfectly: black and white. Everything was crystal clear. There was a right thing to believe in and a wrong thing to avoid. The right answers had all positives and no negatives, and the wrong answers were just the opposite: no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I accepted my faith just as it was told to me.

The second line, however, doesn't describe me so well. I don't really feel "lost" in that fog of gray. In fact, I feel like those shades of gray are really more true than the blacks and whites of my faith's past. The good choices are still good, but I can see how they aren't perfect. The bad choices are still bad, but I can see the redeeming qualities in them sometimes.

Being a designer, the difference in my faith is the difference between a black and white bitmapped image, and one that is colored in 8 or even 16 bit grayscale. So much more real and true in those grays, even if they aren't so easy and perfect.

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