It is no mistake that it is harder to breathe the more constricted we are. Breath requires space. The flow of life calls for freedom. Breath inspires movement. This is true not only in the physical sense. The more we constrict our minds, our feelings, our experiences, in other words, our reality, the more we impede the opportunity to be free. Having latitude with our thinking is about making room for possibility. Latitude in our feeling is allowing for the whole of who we are to be just as we are in the moment. The good news or the bad news, depending on your perspective is with each moment comes change. To allow latitude does not mean we are wishy washy or a relativist. It means we embrace all of what God wants us to experience about being alive. Only making room for whatever based on what we think or belief to be right and safe means we constrict the chance for something to enlighten us and free us from our own internal prisons. Our hearts long for the latitude to explore the depth and strength of our internal courage. When we block off the opportunity to test our latitude, we become cut off from who we can come to know ourselves as. We define ourselves solely by what has already happened and maneuver against what we are capable of becoming. God invites us to step outside our restricted thinking about who we are and the world around us and give ourselves the gift of the latitude of love one step at a time.
Are we willing to discover how courageous we are by giving ourselves some creative latitude in our thinking today?
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