dailydatewithgod

Until we are pushed to our edge do we figure out our full capacity.   I have often thought if you want to know if you get along well with someone go on a road trip with them. When the madness ensues as it invariably does, you find out the character of each person involved.  Something about the constant time together coupled with the expectations and people adjusting to being out of their routine is a perfect mixture to break down the barriers we often keep up.  Our fierceness shows up when we let down our guard.  Sometimes it happens abruptly and other times there is a slow etching away of the guard.  When we bear witness to ourselves and others without the fortresses of who we are when everyone is watching, the fierceness that emerges encases a liveliness we do not often allow.  God invites us to know intimately the fierceness within ourselves.  Getting acquainted with the true nature of our liveliness when we are as some would say more wild is what allows us to tap into our fierce nature when we need or want to.  We spend so much energy trying to keep up with expectations of ourselves, others, and society as a whole it can be exhausting.  Tapping into our fierceness allows us to know the beauty of what happens when we don’t have it all together.  It is the same ferocity of life that caused us to scream when we emerged from our mother’s wombs.  It is the ferocity that alerts our minds when we are hurt emotionally and feel as though our hearts will break.  Breathing deeply and owning our fierceness puts us into resonance with the untamed beauty God has gifted us with as part of the collective livelihood that keeps the planet spinning.  I used to think I didn’t want to feel.  It was too hard, I numbed out.  The pain was unbearable.  When I stepped into recovery and began my daily dates with God I learned to open up to the fierceness of life living inside of me that I had become numb to.  We can feel fully and deeply if we are willing to be a bit wilder than is prescribed as normal.  Finding a way to tap into our fierceness allows us to be the unique beacon of light and love God created us to be.