Helplessness with entitlement vs helplessness with affirmed dependence
Ignorance is often based on being ashamed to inquire. We have so often been shamed by asking the simple questions that we protest by throwing out the baby questions with the bathwater. Those listening too often respond out of their own legalistic fears rather than leading us into the answers we so desparately need.
Eleanore Roosevelt once said "It's never to late to have a happy childhood". I believe that comes when we find answers to our childhood questions.
May we be the gracious ones to answer them.
I tilt, He whirls. "Talking in Cirlces from the Pain"
Often when something has happened that is painful we feel we must scream or become deathly silent. But once we’re allowed to talk through it, we begin to feel the healing reality of being knocked off balance by pain in the descriptions we use to describe such.
Examples include “I feel like I’m talking in circles”, “talking outside of both sides of my mouth”, “rambling”, or “going off on a tangent”.
Once talking through this pain begins, so does the healing. The reason is that we have been met where we truly are by someone giving us this freedom as well as our true self being felt.
The experience of not being alone is being rich in its truest sense. I’ve been heard because someone is with me! Philippians 4:19
If the pain deepens as it often does when healing begins I picture in my own mind that I’m talking and feeling as if I’m on a tilt-a-whirl at the county fair, a feeling much more off balance than talking in circles.
But something about it touches the joy in me that is far deeper than anything I feel.
There is an excitement to this like I had going to the county fair in Murray, Ky. as a child.
I think I just need to go back to the county fair more often, watch the beauty contest(Psalm 27:4), and get another “ticket to ride”.
Our strongest weakness. Celebrate it.
Joy is not based on something good that is happening but on something great that ready has. Suffering therefore becomes the opportunity to show that reality.
Incentives by leaders who are false teachers-controllers- are given that deceive one into attempting to look good at the expense of being good. Courage is required to push out and replace this deceit in order to act by faith where one knows what he is doing based on who he is, not due to some misleading incentive that stimulates one's greed or selfishness.
To be able to blame, despise, fear, be suspicious of someone are examples of incentives to avoid one's own responsability. There must be a victim seen and someone targeted. Avoid this victim mentality in order to be open to continuous real-time wisdom.
Be on alert when someone you trust micromanages everything you do.
Faith comes by hearing and then in a moment the whole scene changes. Depth perception.
The hiding of secret tears.
Men and women of pain. They consider why pain is sent and the comfort for it. Whether something sent seems good or bad doesn't distract from loving nor inspire it. Love just is. But love is moved by compassion.
Trying painstakingly to pick up the shattered and jagged-edged pieces while still falling from a broken heart. This unwarranted sacrifice can take one spiritually blind-folded to a dangerous place of self-destruction carried out by one's own hand.
A strengthening encouragement. When in doubt, comfort. When not in doubt, comfort.
Sadness without the pain of sadness.
Pain and simple.
Sharp instead of blunt. Cutting edge rather than edgy. Awareness of what is your treasure rather than searching for what it isn't in someone else's chest due to envy, jealousy, or selfish ambition.