dailydatewithgod

We tend to accumulate armor as we go through life.  It is understandable.  Life is not easy.  We experience trials and tribulations.  We open ourselves up and we get hurt.  We feel all alone and tend to think we are the only ones who are faced with the kind of loss and grief that can come from being alive.  One of the gifts of recovery is the community of people one is surrounded by.  Who knew a random hodgepodge of people would provide the safe space I needed to let down my guard?  The difficulty with living with one’s guards up is how exhausting it becomes.  We all need a place or people with whom we can allow ourselves to breathe and to be. Some of us find it in our families, others find it in religious communities and still others in a group of recovering addicts.  Wherever we find the backing we need to stand tall and face ourselves through our challenges does not matter.  The point is to find it. When we have the backing of others who can see us with the eyes of their hearts, we can stand tall enough to allow breath into our own hearts.  The backing provides the posture and the groundedness to get reconnected with the truth of who we are.  We know this because we find ourselves standing taller when we let go of doubt, when we can release the burdens we are carrying in our backs or in our hearts, and when we receive the message through others or experiences that we are not the burdens we carry.  God works through all these elements of backing so we can get reconnected and aligned with the energy of our own hearts which carries all the backing we need.  Reconnecting and strengthening this inner backing allows us to move forward with our heads up and hearts open.