What stood out when I read today was this idea again of connection.
Here are the parts that spoke to me from Chapter Two:
We struggle in our connection with the earth, in our connections with each other, and with being connected with ourselves....Our sexuality is all of the ways we strive to reconnect with our world, with each other, and with God.
You can't be connected with God until you're at peace with who you are....And until you're at peace with God and those around you, you will continue to struggle with your role on the planet, your part to play in the ongoing creation of the universe.
"Sexy is when you love being you."
Here are the parts that spoke to me from Chapter Three:
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels.
And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
Being fully human is our job. Thinking and laughing and arranging and creating and relating and designing and nurturing and responding and reacting and pondering when googling became a verb and wondering and exploring and meditating and acting and making long lists of verbs and calling and talking and feeling and sharing and doubting if this paragraph is ever going to end and teaching and learning and jumping on a trampoline and sighing and celebrating and dancing and turning to the person next to you and saying: "This is living."
You can make your own list because you know what it is that makes you feel alive, what it is that feeds your soul, what it is that reminds you that the goal is to be fully human. What's on your list?
As human beings, we take part through our actions in the ongoing creation of the world. The question is, What kind of world are we going to make? What kind of world will our energies create?
In a way I feel this repetition being played out in my life. Life is about connecting with GOD, connecting with others, and connecting with myself. By learning who GOD has created me to be I learn about HIM, and draw closer to HIM in a beautiful way. I just think about that letter I wrote a few years back. I was truly falling in love with GOD again in a whole new way. I still to this day long to continue to fall in love with HIM in new ways daily. Right now I hunger and thirst for more of HIM. And as I draw closer to GOD and know who it is HE has created me to be.......well, it makes me want to connect with others so that I can see HIM reflected in the beautiful creation HE has made. I do pray some day that I can have HIM here in the flesh in the form of a husband. Someone to connect with more than others and to share this journey in.
We were created to love and serve one another, but all too often we actually hurt one another. Because people hurt people. GOD is a living and breathing presence that we can experience in the life we choose to live in HIS ongoing creation. And that is the connection we all need. (This thought came as a combination from Our Daily Bread and Living the Message for today.)
So ask yourself what kind of world you are creating around you? How are you connecting with GOD, others, and yourself? Are you spreading JOY?
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