Self Meet Your SELF

Is this current situation causing you to slow down?  Is it reordering your thoughts, life and longings?  Is it opening your eyes to beauty and your heart to love?  Do you see the lone dandelion, the color blue in the sky, the sweet bent body of your bride?  Do you hear the birds, taste your coffee, smell dinner, and linger your hand on that of your lover?  Do you find yourself reaching for your phone more, wondering about those old friends, thinking prayers of safety and good health for ones you haven’t seen in years?  Is this spring special, the new leaves like balm, the dogwoods and blooming cherries medicine for your soul?  Do you wave more, do you look to see who you can see, do you walk your neighborhood looking for bears and keep thinking you need to see if there is a long-abandoned one in one of your grown children’s closets?  Is music more important, warm water wonderfully kind and your lawn needing to be mowed a gift?  Can you feel your heart more, tears closer to call, your hands longing to hold, do you want to help more, serve more, reach out more, share, be kinder, more forgiving and wish you could do more?  Do you get a sense you are coming to know the real you more, the one you had not known in a while or ever and want to be always more like that person?  If so welcome to what life with Christ is and can be, ALWAYS.  He longs to know you and you to know Him. He doesn’t seek to change you but help you be you.  This just may be His way of showing you, you—in Him.