God is always inviting us into places of greater openness and trust in Him. Even though we do not know what the future holds, He does. We can keep ourselves ‘small’ and controlled, and so miss His greater purpose for us – to become our fullest selves. His expansive call is, ‘Choose Life!’, for He knows how fear can lock us down. We so need to hold onto the way He sees us because the limited way we have been known is not nearly the whole picture. He, like any gardener, wants to take us out of our restricting container of beliefs and expectations and plant us so that we can really thrive. Continue reading Root-bound?
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Open to surprise
Too seldom do we enter the moment open to whatever surprises there are for us. Instead, we often flood it with the baggage we are carrying from our past. Like in the film, ‘The Mission’, we drag along a sack of dead-weight expectations. In this way we can easily lose the moment and end up simply repeating the way we live our lives. We can also miss it if we always feel we have to have something to show, or if we over- or under-manage it. Our commitment to being real, teachable, and flexible in each moment is so important.
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