dailydatewithgod

We are creative beings.  Our minds and hearts give us the tool we need to shape our experiences of life.  It is perhaps deceivingly easier to acquiesce to the idea that we are simply products of our experience.  The philosophy of victim-hood however is in stark contrast to the outline of our lives as designed by God. We are invited by God to claim our role and sketch our lives based on the truth of who we are.  It asks us to take responsibility for our lives.  This may seem overwhelming and so many do little more than make an attempt.  I know I was definitely in that camp for a long time.  Before I got into recovery, victim was the lens through which I saw everything.  Yet something inside of me knew different.  I would not be able to describe it as anything other than the spirit of God alive within me. Like the little flame barely flickering, it was a small scroll pen asking me to sketch a different story.  A story which made room to breathe, created a space to grow in love, and connect with the deepest part of myself allowing me to transcend what I was able to see with my eyes.  When the sketch I adopted stopped working and I almost killed myself trying to capitulate to the outline set before me by others, I knew there had to be another way.  It is funny what desperation of spirit will do to you.  I can say I gave it my all, but God’s presence of light in my heart won out.  It is the light showing me the way to create a new sketch incorporating what I learned and continue to learn in the process of surrendering all my adapted sketches.  It is a lifetime process but as I take responsibility for my role in creating the sketches of my life, I have the power to change the story at any moment.  Even with the next breath.