Reflection
Years ago, in one of many counseling sessions, I heard a simple phrase that stuck: ” Learn to dance with yourself.”
At the time, I didn’t fully understand it. I was still learning how to sit with my own thoughts without escaping through drinking or other addictions. But over time, I realized it meant practicing self-awareness about who I was…knowing my triggers and controlling the responses to those triggers, how various elements of the external environment affected my thinking, naming and claiming, and improving upon my character defects, etc.
Yes! It takes work to learn to dance with ourselves…at least it did for me.
Once we figure ourselves out and realize perfection isn’t an option, we stop taking ourselves so seriously, and life seems lighter as we are no longer sucked into a spirit of negativity where the enemy dwells.
In essence, we are free, and in that freedom, we begin to experience the quiet, steady joy that comes from simply being…okay.
This is a “not okay” person telling you it’s okay to not be okay, so you can be okay. 😊
Soul Search
Where am I resisting being alone with myself, and what would it look like to embrace that space with grace instead of escape?
Psalm 139:13-16, “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
