Relationship

I love it when the L-rd takes my ideas of something and turns them all upside down.

I love when He shows me something in an entirely new way that I would not have seen without His illumination!

I love it when He takes the things in my life and teaches me hard lessons. I have to stop and give myself time to adjust to new ways of thinking and doing.

I can, instead of grumbling, be thankful for those things that bring Him more deeply into my life and heart!

Today I heard that it's not just knowing Elohim's word but actually doing it. So many of us "know" His word. We can quote scriptures and chapters but are we living it out in our day to day lives?

A prayer I have prayed over the years is that I would be so much like Messiah that where He begins and I end would not be able to be seen. That only he would shine out from me to others. His Spirit alive and active within me!

I pray that my friends and neighbors can see Him in my life. Even those strangers I meet at the grocery store or gas station would see His light in my witness. There is no greater gain for me in this life than to be known as His Beloved. I want to be living His word every day!
 
My view of relationships has been upended. But it's good and beautiful! It feels good to be changing and allowing myself to be more vulnerable and needy. Being real.

There may be those who can't accept this in me or others until they can allow it in themselves. I know, I have been there, but I pray that they too can be free to be real!

My oldest child who is 18 reminds me often that when I am myself I free others to be themselves. I have tried this out in groups and meetings and it is so true! When I let the "real" me shine forth than I see a change in how others act also!
 
When allowing myself to be real beyond just the surface I can let others see my struggles and strengths. I can then be what someone else needs and encourage them as they walk through the trials in their lives.

It all comes back full circle. And what beauty and love it carries as it comes!

I like the brick analogy I read about recently. As things arise in relationships if we don't deal with them each brick eventually piles upon another brick until we have a wall built up and the relationship fails.

I am making it my goal to deal with those bricks so that walls never have a chance to come between me and someone I love and care about.

Do you have bricks in your life that you need to deal with?

Elohim created us to need others. He didn't create us to be an island unto ourselves. We need each other. We women need other women! We need relationship! We learn how to love others through our relationships. We allow the L-rd to teach us more about ourselves by letting others into our hearts home.
 
I pray that we may all find those people that we can be safe with and have relationship! And I pray we can overcome our fears and experience the beauty that Elohim is giving us through others!