Accountability

True accountability is born out of freedom, not imposition. Our deepest struggle is rarely what we think is wrong. Our deepest struggle is confronting the freedom that we have and being accountable to it by choice. In that confrontation by reflecting on what we are thinking(carefully thought), we begin to overcome evil with good. In other words we begin to meet resistance with gentleness born out of the knowledge that overcoming evil by trying to be right is really demanding justice without giving  it. That is no accountability. It’s simply bondage.

Giving justice frees us from the need to avoid wrong and just freely turn from it.

For example if I say I struggle with jealousy, my struggle is not with jealousy but the freedom not to be while holding myself accountable to that free choice.

RAW

Redemption after wailing. Wailing has the sense and the sound of hell. But it can be the journey to the well of grief. The wall blocking grief is revenge or the need to avenge. Don’t get even, get sad. Then the real journey that requires no travel begins.

Empty Words

Echoes without the mirrored image.

Stress Fracture

Beating the pavement when we should be at rest.

Mentoring

Taming of the shrewd. Shrewd investing is investing in others.

Peace

The deep sense of being fed rather than making sense of something in order to understand.

True Acceptance

It is more than intellectual assent. It is an act of the will.

V.S. or Verses

Contrast and comparison or Person? Proof or Truth? Words or Word? Read or Hear? Analyse or Realize? Black or White or Dark and Light? See or Know?

Impatience

The telltale sign that you aren't listening.

Basket Case

Even Moses was at one time a basket case as a child. Exodus 2:3-4 We must return as a child to have us transformed- found and lifted- by the basket-case feeling of our lives being opened so it no longer is a cold case. It's as an adult child that we feel silly and embarassed as to what really matters to us, yet we begin to share those things anyway at the risk of being shamed. We tend to weave our own basket case into which we hem ourselves where the hem of the Garment cannot be touched.  

Know before you sew.

Intellectual Cowardness

When I substitute image for intimacy.  By denying my intuitive longing for a moral choice to be made that answers what truly matters, I intellectually deny my purpose-driven arguments that would take me there.  Intellectual cowardness leads only to deep frustration and I move into my head to live rather than using my head to live out a true life of purpose based on a Promise that there is an Anchor full of promises.

Revenge

There is a hurt that hurts others. It can start out as a crutch that allows healing until one can walk again. But a crutch can change form into revenge that makes it impossible to walk again without also trampling on another's ability to walk. A Cain doesn't make you Abel.

Heir Conditioner

The heir becomes thin at higher altitudes. The higher we're lifted, the more that must roll off the back.

Merci for the Mercy-Seat

The Well of Grief where the troubles end well

while wounded and feeling the death grip of hell.

But my wounds drawing from the well of grief,

my brokeness, my anger,  sense no relief.

Are these from the Father or the thief?

My heart? Dead, buried, or just broken?

Depending, is my reaction to what is spoken.

Or is the fact that I in the past would react,

when instead by faith I can now just act.

Shame distorts the well of grief

denying it to be the Mercy-seat,

a man of sorrows who washes our feet,

this holy affair where anger, we don’t meet.

The cross, Psalm 85:10, doubly sweet.

Balaam Out

When my ass gets handed to me it's oftentimes because my ass is scared. A wagging tail is not always a "happy ending".

Dumb Ox or Ass

A lot of work can be done while listening, though it's often misinterpreted early in the process. Proverbs 20:5