God is Brilliant! God is Audacious! We think that we have an understanding of God that we can rely upon and then we have an experience where we feel like God is absent. We find ourselves frustrated, let down, and hurt. Perhaps we feel angry and resentful towards God, the individuals, and the institutions who passed on the idea that God can be relied upon. I have had many of those experiences in my life. To top it off I judged myself as being a bad girl because I was angry with God for what I perceived as abandonment. In developing this dating relationship with God I have come to understand things differently. For example, I had to let go of the notion that I could conceive of how God is completely in my mind. From there I was willing to look again at what had occurred in those moments of abandonment and disappointment. I had to ask God where He/She/It was in those most needed times and be open to what answers might come. Then and only then was I able to hear what my heart knew all along. I began to see that when I boxed God in to my perception of what God is supposed to be I was always going to come up short. In order to mature in a relationship with God I think we all have to come to those questions. God is endowed with a pluckiness for life of all creation. God will stand courageously with us as we ask those questions and wait in the quiet patient spaces as the answers come. My prayer for us today is a willingness to trust in the pluckiness of God as we demonstrate an earnest attempt at engaging in mature conversations with God. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
Be With Pluckiness!
on November 3, 2015Are you willing to trust that God has a pluckiness that can survive your painful questions and then some? Share in the comments.
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