May 11, 2017
I'm not one to usually do this sort of thing but I just wanted to share in case it would be useful to someone.
I've been in a long season of stones continuing to be overturned in my life. Fears, uncertainty, pain, questions, brokenness, and areas the I am just in lack. When that happens, my first reaction used to be to want to do the same thing that everything living under a rock wants to do when it's lifted...to run. That or I feel the urge to pull away from people until can emerge again with something that I can make sense of or effectively communicate.
However, I am beginning to see the exposing of my fears as an opportunities to be brave, the exposing of my weaknesses as an opportunity to become stronger, and exposing of the areas in my life that are unhealthy as opportunities to become healed. Rather than wince or to become overwhelmed at the surfacing of these things, I am beginning to smile and take a deep breath and to know that what ever is exposed is offering an opportunity to change, to grow, to be more than the thing itself. It’s ok to be human. There is not one person in this world who doesn’t have a thing to work on. It is grace to even be able to see it.
I am learning to not resent my humanity but to embrace it as a really good story.
Let people see you. Let them really see you.