Today is Five Minute Friday! :-D, yea! I’m linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five Minute Friday, for the word bare.
Bare…
::Go::
Bare. My first thought is in this over-sexualized culture we live in, we see too much bare skin.
Then. I chose to change my thought process.
I started to think about how I want to bare my heart to Christ each day. I want to be vulnerable to Him. and Him alone. This process of baring my heart to Him is different than just being in communication with Him. I pray a lot to get through each day. I’m not sure I do enough listening. Which is supposed to be a large part of prayer.
Prayer is communication with our Heavenly Father. Communication is two-way {talking & listening}. Talking is one-way. So, for prayer to be communication – it must be two-way. To communicate with my Heavenly Father – I need to have the quiet, listening part of the two-way conversation. I do the talking part. a lot.
I want to bare my heart {the talking part}, then be quiet and listen. There is so much to hear from Him when we listen. This week has been more proactive on the listening part – it feels as if I have bared more and felt more peace than in a long time.
::Stop::
It’s hard to bare my heart – remaining vulnerable is very hard for me. I want to rush over it. I want to protect my wounded-self. I believe I have not bared my heart enough to the only One who can comfort me. I don’t like the feeling of being vulnerable, and I believe my self-protection has hindered my praying. It hurt to be still and listen to God’s love for me when there are such huge, big, hurtful things all around. I just kept talking, asking Him to guide & direct our decisions. Thanking Him for being in control, for sending His son to save us. all very good – but I wasn’t allowing Him to comfort me.
Come join in Five Minute Friday. Here are the rules:
1. Write for 5 minutes flat for pure unedited love of the written word.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. Go buck wild with encouragement for the five minuter who linked up before you.
For the record, I do anticipate getting here more than once a week – soon. Life is getting caught up. More slowly than I would have liked, but getting there…