Stretching

A friend of mine recently said: "Stretching, stretching... you eventually become limber and it stops hurting, right? :-) Physically AND spiritually?" This following was my response to what I have been learning on my journey:

It has been my experience that the hurting may not stop, but it becomes more tolerable as you cease stretching and know that He is God. In other words he does not want ANYTHING from you. Trying harder is not even in the equation. He simply loves you as he made you. In fact he is DELIGHTED in you, warts and all.

As we realize that He really lives through us as the unique person he created us to be we learn to relax in His unconditional love. Then slowly and sometimes in bursts of revelation we start to relax more and more into that love that demands NOTHING of us. As we yield to that love we find that he has been there all along, as close as the nose on our face and the heart beating within us. He is not somewhere out there, but right here with us now.

Only Jesus can literally live those realities out through our unique person that he expertly, lovingly fashioned and had in His mind before the foundation of the world. As we let go of the struggling and trying harder and relax more and more a mysterious thing happens. Our whole perspective on ourselves and others radically changes. We start to become more patient with ourselves and others. We start to not take ourselves SO seriously. We learn to have a sense of wonder and play like a little child again. ... Read More

Ask Him to reveal Himself IN you and to make that more of a reality to you, and to help you to trust that He will do it. Everything else will NATURALLY flow from you REALIZING that in your heart and yes even in your emotions to your head. Yes I said heart to head, not the other way around. He is so much more patient with us than we realize, and He really is enamored, infatuated, and totally ga-ga over us. RELIGION has taught us the exact opposite of this and it breaks Daddy's heart.

It is time to let go of the FEAR based PERFORMANCE lie and to embrace a love that is so passionate and wild that it will change us WITHOUT our trying. It seems to sneak up on you at times and shout, "Surprise! I am working things out within and through you that you did not even realize until this very moment unfolded." It is unpredictable, spontaneous, and beautiful, and it only comes through the relaxing and letting go of control.

I know this is a long post, but it just seemed to flow out of me. I hope this strikes a chord of truth within you. Just know that you are dearly loved, Period.