a confession: i’m a sucker for the bourne series and most football movies. judge me if you will..

truth of the matter is that their situations seem so ideal. take the bourne supremacy for example.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLviFy9inA
the bourne supremacy

now think about his situation as compared to most everyone’s daily battle. he knows his enemies, knows where they are, what they look like, how they act, how to take them down. he can physically confront each obstacle and fight his way through and, in the end, he knows he if he’s failed or succeeded based on who’s left standing. and afterwards, his issues with those enemies is resolved.

us, though, face a different battle all together. most of our enemies and battles are against ghosts, unknown to us in every way. we punch at phantoms, we grasp at gaps, scream pointlessly at the sky, and run towards no set finish-line. there is no response, though, no noses we can bloody, no ears we can occupy, no perpetrator we can pin down and violently threaten to give us our way. we can’t run faster, get stronger, or shoot straighter to win our battles. rarely do we have the luxury of knowing when our fight is won or lost or if we’ve made any difference at all. often we have no idea whether the battle can be won at all.

instead, we wake each day to a try to divine who or what our demons looks like today. instead, we fight based on faith.