how the light gets in

Category: MARCH 2018

• But God…

  Posted at 10:36 pm by How the Light Gets In, on March 31, 2018

  The walls around my heart should be thick and tall.

  The walls of my heart should have dark bricks of bitterness.

  And honestly, the walls of my heart have been high and they have been thick.

  My body & my heart have been through so much more.

  Life doesn’t make sense.  I remember spending a lot of time demanding the answers, researching the possibilities, crying over my “WHY’s.”

  My life story has more than one chapter of sad stuff.  I’m sure yours does too.  Do you have the chapters tucked away? Or is your hard chapter being written now?

  Life doesn’t make sense.  Life straight up sucks sometimes.  It just does.

  You need to know God’s love for you is just waiting on the other side of that wall.

  You are on this journey with me.

  And a big part of this chapter is marking these moments of HEY, GOD IS LEGIT so we can celebrate & grow in this together.  Because, honestly, when the hard comes at me, I still grab a brick and start building.

  But God.

  But God.

  But God.

  He just keeps dropping bits of heaven into my day, kicking that wall down.

  WHAT IS THE BIGGEST BRICK IN YOUR LIFE NOW?  What or who does it look like?  How does it make you feel?  How heavy is it?  It would take a lot, something pretty powerful to knock that down, right?  Mine too.

  Jesus had a brick, in fact, it was a large stone.  “Make the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.” Matthew 28:66

  Does it feel like your brick is huge, and bitterness may have sealed it up, with worry standing guard?

  This Easter, light and love are waiting to bust through your wall.  Do not doubt the power of Jesus’ love for you.  After all, that huge stone “holding Jesus in his tomb…” yeah, that just rolled away blowing everyone’s minds.  Let him blow yours away.

  Happy Easter!

  Posted in MARCH 2018 | 0 Comments | Tagged Bricks, But God, How the Light Gets In, Matthew 28:66

• Flipping the Switch

  Posted at 10:24 pm by How the Light Gets In, on March 14, 2018

  Remember when you were little?  And, you were trying so hard to sleep but there was that scary thing in your room?  And, it was so dark.  And, there was no way you could get up to turn on the light.  It’s as if you were paralyzed right in your bed.  And finally, when you had gotten enough courage to yell out for help, your mom or dad would come to the rescue.  And all they did was switch on the light. And that scary thing would be revealed… a towel on the doorknob.  Right?  But it was sooooo scary.

  That towel on the door knob was terrifying hanging there in the dark.

  That towel on the door knob was so powerful in the dark.

  The longer we hold things in the dark, the more power we give them.  The longer we keep things in the dark, the more paralyzed we can become.  That’s my takeaway from therapy so far.

  It’s good, right?

  What’s your “towel?”  I know you have one.  Maybe you have a bunch of towels piled high and scary and intimidating in a dark corner of your heart.

  Maybe you believe you aren’t good enough.  Maybe you believe you deserve it.  Maybe you feel if you aren’t doing it all, you are just not worthy.

  It’s time to flip the switch.

  God, THE source of light (1John 1:5), is on standby waiting to bring on the light.  He’s hoping you’ll call out to Him and He can shed the light of truth on who you are (1Peter 2:9).  He’s waiting to blind you with overwhelming love.  He’s on standby to come into the mess and sing His sweet song of love over you (Zephaniah 3:17),  filling you with the peace you deserve.

  It takes a lot of courage to face my stupid, scary “towels.”  To be honest, my heart is still adjusting to the light of truth.  This will take time. I can tell you, I have never felt more brave, scared, messy and loved ALL AT THE SAME TIME in my life.  Lots of deep breaths.

  I’m grateful, even if it’s taken this long to learn, that flipping the switch is one way how the light gets in.

  {side note: Cory Asbury.  Have you heard him?  His new album, “Reckless Love” is on repeat.  He turned scriptures into prayers into music.  And my soul is singing right along with every word.}

   

   

   

   

   

  Posted in MARCH 2018 | 1 Comment | Tagged 1 John 1:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Cory Asbury, Dark, flipping the switch, How the Light Gets In, Zephaniah 3:17