I'm currently in a state of Transition... liminal space as many call it. A place of anxiety, excitement, questioning, waiting, a state of limbo, an ambiguous state of humility. A place where I have been forced to just be... learning who I am and being forced to listen to who I am. I am on a journey to listen to wise, seasoned individuals and seeking out Godly men who are striving to live a life as a man of God.
I am being humbled...
I am being shown...
I am listening (trying to anyways)...
I was recently shown a great little book, "The Gift of Being Yourself"
A book about identity and finding your true self... i know, so cliche right? But it is written in such a way that allows you to dig into your being, identify your shadow and learn to love that piece of you. Learning to love the thing that you desperately try to hide from the world. The essence being that God absolutely loves and adores all of your being... not just the piece that we think is ok and try to show the world, but ALL of us!
"Finding that unique self is, as noted by Thomas Merton, the problem on which all our existence, peace and happiness depend. Nothing is more important, for if we find our true self we find God, and if we find god , we find our most authentic self."
The Christian strives to know and follow Jesus... we are not to become Jesus. We are to become ourselves... The unique beautiful creature that God created. Jesus is our model and he desperately wants us to become fully ourselves.
