Acceptance

What is it that you want from me?

I want you to experience fullness, I want you to experience absence. Absence of lack, absence of need, absence of pain, absence of tension, absence of fear, absence of abstinence.

What is it that you accept? What have you learned to accept? What is acceptable to you?

Can you accept my fullness?

Can you just receive my goodness?

Will you experience my love?

Will you be intimate with me?

Will you give yourself to me?

I want you to be care free.

But you must first accept my care, know how much I care.

For you know what it is like to experience those who would care less.

For “be careful” is a common phase for you, it is important to you that those around you feel cared for. You want them to be care full, to experience care and to be full of care. Yet there is a chasm between desire and reality.

Yet you struggle to care for yourself, you could care less about yourself, you express no care for yourself. When everything drys up, you only know how to survive.

I want you to thrive, I want you to get over yourself, get out of your own way, stop placing obstacles in your own path, stop highlighting the small, the insignificant, the pain, the scratch, that which is out of place.

For whilst you highlight the imperfection, you miss the highlights.

Have I not pulled you out of the mire!!!

Yet all you see is mud, all you feel is mud, for I know you hate the mud.

Yet what is the mud evidence of?

What is it you see?

When you were in the mire you could only see the darkness, and feel the pain, and experience the struggle.

Yet, what is it you see?

I see the dry mud upon my hands. I look up and see the harvest! My body has no strength, is weary of the struggle, and my feet shake and struggle to be steady. I am not used to the solid ground. My steps are unsteady!

Is this not what I have promised? Is this not evidence of what I have done. For the mud is dry, to rubs off, it has no power. For the slippery place has become the solid place, the rock upon which you stand.

Do you know what you are standing on?

For the slip has turned to the grip, has submitted to my grip.

Who holds you by the hand?

Who is it that cares for you?

You see before your eyes the evidence of what I have done, yet struggle to stand upon it!

You see that I have pulled you out, now experience the steadying of your steps.

For I am setting all things right.

For who placed you here?

Who set your feet upon this rock?

Who gave you a grip instead of your slip?

Who gave you traction for your action?

Who caused you to go, when you wanted to stay?

For this is the place of the setting.

I am setting all things right.

Hebrews 12:12-13 So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction, so that the lame and halting limbs may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured. Psalms 40:1-3 I WAITED patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up out of a horrible pit a pit of tumult and of destruction, out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord.