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