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Elizabeth Browning



Saturday, November 3, 2018

fully human


“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
 Brené Brown
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Following Jesus is not safe
Never was, never will be
Just as Jesus

It is not life insurance
Nor is it fire insurance
It does not guarantee success, or wealth
It does not protect us from difficult things (quite the opposite)

Following Jesus is about being your created to be self
It is about being open
Vulnerable
Giving
Forgiving

It is about laying it all on the line
For love

When we live as Sacred Children
When we let our divine DNA express itself
(Following the way of Jesus)

We lower our defenses
We have soft front
We risk
We expend
We welcome
We give

We even sacrifice
None of that is safe

If we choose safety
We are different people
We have hard fronts and soft backs
We are closed, protective, hidden

We refuse to risk
We hug resources to ourselves
We exclude
We hate

Safety at last
But at a cost

For now we are in the house of fear
Now we are cut off
From others
From God
 Even from ourselves

Our life becomes dominated by the need to
Protect, to distance

And the cost is great
We are plague with anxiety, depression,
eating disorders, addiction,
rage, blame,
resentment, and inexplicable grief.

If you don’t believe me just look into the eyes
of the fearful hoarders
the hate full excluders

No following Jesus isn’t safe
but it is
what makes us
fully human

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