dailydatewithgod

I wonder sometimes if the firm structure of the skull around our brain is symbolic of our hard-headedness versus the more open bone structure of the ribs around our hearts. I recognize our skull is made up of several pieces of bone held together and it is more flexible than it might appear to be.  I suppose the real question is, do we have more pliability in our minds or our hearts? The ever-changing nature of life means we need flexibility in all our systems.  How that adjustability manifests is of course different.  God encourages us to use the natures of our mind and hearts to create pliability which enables us to both be rooted in the unchanging nature of the truth of who we are while flexing in and through how that shows up at the moment.  A tree would not be a tree if it did not stand upright while being connected to its roots so it can grow strong.  At the same time, it needs to be able to sway in the wind and withstand various temperatures to go through its life cycle and be alive.  Learning how to create workable pliability of who we are at our core and respond to the situation at hand as it is.  Our particular life has something to offer each situation and it may be something different than what we have offered previously. This does not mean we are so pliable we have no backbone. It means we know how to be in the flow of life and respond authentically to the truth of who we are at our core. When we have no sense of our own roots, we do not know who or how to be in any given situation.  We start to think we are supposed to respond based on some formula of this is how everyone does it.  We lose true pliability by not being intimately familiar with who we are and who God designed us to be.