The Trouble with Transformation ~ Part III

I trust that you, like me, desire more than anything to follow the Spirit's lead into all Truth, as we can bear it. I trust that you, like me, desire to embody love, in all of it's pure expressions, even while acknowledging and honoring that we, in this human form, cannot help but do so imperfectly ... embracing the gift of that, in that we learn from our mistakes far more than we learn from our successes.

While we're enroute, it's far too easy to misunderstand each other ... far too easy to confuse egos (our own and those of others) with who a person really is -- their spirit. Our perspectives are just too limited, too based on our past-experiences-grid, too focused on what we *think* we know. I prefer to see through my limited perceptions, and discern the heart/spirit of the person behind the presentation. That, too, is a work in progress -- I am a mixture of Unlearning and RElearning and REmembering ... quite the wild and adventurous (and messy!) process, no? Perhaps that's why we're told to be so lavishly generous with our love for one another, while IN this process together ...

I do trust the Spirit to lead ... even despite our own human inclination to "miss the point". I believe God knows our inherent limitations far more than we do, knows FAR more our proclivity to be deceived (to self-deceive!), and works with even that, for our good. I trust the process, I trust the bigger-picture, because I trust God. We're just not a match for Him...! Woo-HOO!

I trust that we will know His Voice, and follow Him ... and that we will not follow the thief nor the stranger, even if it takes starting after either of those, for a season, and thus learning from that experience ... I see that we come to God, not because we get it "all right", but because of how He seeks after the lost one(s) 'til He finds them -- thus, we come to God even because of how we keep getting it "all wrong".

My spirit breathes a sigh of relief at this awareness ... I don't have to strive ... I don't have to attain or maintain the "right path." God, who is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, is on my side. He's on your side. EVERYTHING, including (& especially!) our blunders, our mistakes, and our seeming tragedies, work to our good ...

We *can* trust Him, and thus live this, the Abundant Life, with optimism and unfettered JOY...!

Why not...?

Shalom, Dena