dailydatewithgod

It seems to work out in life that we do not discover that we can get up until at first, we fall.  We do not know if we have the power to overcome it until we are burdened.  We do not know we have light within us until we find ourselves lost in the dark. To become acquainted with our rising we must make peace with our falling.  I used to think I needed or wanted a God that would protect me from the trials of life.  I thought that was how it worked.  The bible talked about the fall of man and the rising of Christ.  Yet if we look closer at the stories we see that all through that process of were stories of man who found a way to rise above their circumstances.  Maybe in the story of Jesus, God was trying to remind us of the glory of our rising.  Perhaps Jesus was showing us how powerful it is when we are in our rising no matter the circumstance.  It is the rising of light in our hearts that makes us willing to take one more step, open our eyes again, and find the courage stored within us.  Our rising in whatever situations we find ourselves is about acknowledging how we fall or what caused the fall and the recognition that the fall will not define us.  As an incest survivor, my childhood experience is not the end of the story.  My life in addiction and self-hatred is not the end of the story. My life is made glorious in the big and small risings I made after that every step of the way.  Sometimes I fall back in old feelings and memories. My rising begins the I take a breath and bring myself back to the present.  I do not need a God to rescue me from my experience.  I want to be in relationship with a God who whispers in my ear that I am more than who I think I am.  I want to be in relationship with a God that built within me a system by which my heart is awakened many times throughout the day and inserts the courage to begin rising from whatever or wherever I am in the moment.  We all have experiences that we would qualify as fallen times.  God invites us to be with ourselves in the fall and discover the courage built within us to begin rising.