dailydatewithgod

We all have things we would rather not have out in the open.  We construct our lives carefully to keep others from knowing certain things about us until we feel we can trust them.  This is not a bad thing unless we determine that no one is ever safe.  As relational beings it makes sense that we want to feel apart of and connect with each other.  The difficult nature of relationships is they often reveal the things we keep in the recesses of our minds about ourselves.  We cannot see our penetralia, we need others to bear witness to it.  One of the great gifts of 12 step rooms is the opportunity to be transparent with acceptance.  In the area I live in, people clap after you share.  The funny part is it doesn’t matter what you say, people clap.  They accept what you share, no matter what, and acknowledge  you for speaking it out loud.  It is a room full of people who know all to well we are only as sick as our secrets.  The opportunity to lay bear the penetrailia of our lives whether in a therapists office or a recovery room opens our hearts to witness the parts of ourselves we have been hiding from ourselves God is not dismayed by our penetralia. She is ready and waiting to take a closer look when we are willing.  He will not open that door without first knocking.  The penetrailia is a knock at our hearts to wake up and see it as smoke and mirrors over the truth of who we are.  There is nothing in God’s mind that can rip from us the innocence and pure love from which we were created.  Believing the publicity of our own penetralia is our way of protecting ourselves from what we think God sees.  God is happy to be the constant reminder of a power penetrating through penetralia to the core of love we all are.