The more calm I am, the more accurately I reflect That Which Is True. It hasn’t been easy lately. In fact I’ve failed. Sometimes I feel like I’m being tested. The winds of adversity trouble me.
But I want to pass. I intend to pass. With honor. I will reflect with purity the love, peace, joy and truth that surrounds me.
I desire the reflection to be so accurate that you will not be able to discern the difference between me and That Which I Reflect.
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Rahab's Crimson Cord
Sometimes all we can do is all we can do, then wait.
Like Rahab. She waited for her deliverance to finally come.
Waiting. Waiting. Then waiting some more.
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Jesus called his disciples his friends.
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Perhaps you read my post this morning. It’s my theme today.
Since Lisa and I left the church two years ago we’ve experienced times of severe loneliness. We lost a bunch of friends all at once. It wasn’t our intention for it to go that way, but it did. We also lost the culture of fellowship that provided a network of friendships that could be renewed and renegotiated every week. That wasn’t our intention either, but that’s what happened. Although there was a lots of positives about our experience of friendship in the church, it surprisingly came to an abrupt end. Partly my fault because I’m the one who left.
But I’ve learned some new things about friendship.
Lisa is a full-time student getting her nursing degree and has met a whole new set of people and made new friends of excellent quality. I’ve become a teacher of English as a second language to Pre-MBA students. I too have made new friends, each one of them special, unique and valuable to me in different ways.
Lisa and I have been our best companions. I’d be lost without her. But we are also so thankful for our friends. They’ve come bearing gifts of love, acceptance and joy. They appreciate who we are just as we are.
I’ll tell a few of the things that make these new friends beautiful:
Jesus loved his friends. I’m sure this is what he meant.
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There are two ways to prevail.
Like the tree, you can go with the adversity. Bend with it. Be flexible in the face of it. Surrender to it.
Or, like the crow, you can lean into it. Streamline yourself against it. Endure it. Stand your ground in spite of it.
Both are wise. Both prevail.
Even against the most severe of prevailing winds.
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Just like Sophia here, in one fell swoop I took an axe to the bridge and cut it. Instantly! Although the urge had been building up for a long time, the actual physical cutting of the bridge was rash, instantaneous and permanent.
I have no regrets.
There were two things I was separating myself from:
If you identify with what I’m talking about, then admit it, find your axe, and use it.
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I want to apologize, but not really, for posting this Sophia image again, “Entangled”. Of all the Sophias, this one is the most emotional for me because it captures the messy struggle I’m presently engaged in.
I was recalling the Jacob story when he was wrestling with the angel. All the ingredients are there in that story to metaphorically illustrate my journey.
Whether they are my inner demons or angels, or whether they have been sent, I cannot tell. All I know is that I will prevail!
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Sophia represents my inner journey. Like Sophia, I used to think freedom was liberation from external forces trying to control me. Now I realize that the hardest battle for freedom is an interior one. Sophia is all tangled up in her own issues. But she is a determined young woman. She will achieve the freedom she so desperately desires. And that means me too!
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