Articles
THE RABBIT AND ME
“’WHAT IS REAL?’ asked the rabbit one day.”
Anyone recognize that quote? Sure, most parents do. It’s from the child’s book The
Velveteen Rabbit. The skin horse responded, “Real isn’t how you’re made, it’s a thing that
happens to you . . .”
I’m with the rabbit. “What is real?” I’m so tired of lies, spin and hype that I could throw up .
. . if it would help anything. Even the weather channel hypes everything up. They find the worse-
case scenario possible and broadcast standing in thigh-deep water. It’s hard to know what’s
really happening because it’s so sensationalized.
There was a time when you could fairly safely say, “Seeing is believing.” But that’s no
longer true. Everything is photo-shopped. I grew up believing (admittedly naïvely), “If it’s in
print, it must be true.” That bubble’s been burst, too. The information that the world puts out is
riddled with lies. Half-truths (which are lies), distortions and agendas.
This world is filled with folks who prefer to believe a lie over the truth. But that’s exactly
what Paul said would happen. Listen— “For the time will come when men will not put up with
sound doctrine (truth). Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away
from the truth and turn to myths (“fiction”)” (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NIV).
The rabbit and I . . . are concerned about what’s real. I really don’t want to waste my life
depending on what other people tell me is the truth. The word of God is true and it is the truth.
You don’t have to sort through it to try to determine what’s real. Every single word is real and
true.
Ken Stegall Woodland Oaks church of Christ The Woodlands, TX
“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17).
