dailydatewithgod

Within our makeup are all the capacities needed for survival.  If we are in danger, we will be able to figure out a way to escape it either by freezing, fleeing or fighting. Its is part of our basic make-up.  What it looks like in real-time can be different for each person.  It is in our design to be able to endure situations that test our ability to survive.  What we think we can survive is part of what drives it.  If we go solely from what we think we are capable of in our minds we would be selling ourselves short.  The tremendous capacity to survive is built into our mind, our body, our heart and our spirit.  God created us to live and live fully.  He therefore also gave us the tools needed to make that happen.  We will utilize what is at our best in the moment.  As a child, in order to survive the reality of sexual abuse I would escape in my mind.  Whatever we face as kids, sometimes escape physically is not possible so we do so with our minds.  It can be a very effective tool.  I am grateful for it.  Living in recovery as an adult woman however, I am driven by the desire to live and experience life as fully as possible.  This means the escape I choose today is more holistic. Escaping into my mind and leaving my body is not what I want to do today.  So I must utilize the tools for survival provided by my heart and my spirit which for me are often initiated by my body.  My heart grants me the courage to face it.  My spirit grants me the patience and the fortitude to face life.  When my heart and spirit are enrolled they utilize the capacity of my mind to walk through experiences I would have thought I needed to escape from to survive.  Over time I begin to see that today what I need escape from is my fixed thinking about how the experience is going to be. With these God-given tools working in concert together, escape means letting go of my version of reality and embracing God’s.