Radically Happy

“You already have all you need”

From a dream about Jesus at a cooking show, telling me to deconstruct an existing dish to get the ingredients for a new one.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Discovering what I am addicted from
• The deeper hunger hiding behind deep pain
• That I obfuscate behind petty sins
• Or religious busyness

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from 2/7 IAM: Fearfully Incomplete

I am… dis-covered

Jesus looks for me

When Jesus opens my sarcophagus
A giant, green, venomous snake pops up
Hissing furiously at Jesus

Jesus smiles, gives it a sympathetic hug, and sets it aside

Next is a sheet of solid blackness
Like a 2-D black hole

Jesus pauses to look at it
As He stares
It absorbs light from His eyes
Becoming first a mirror
Then translucent
Then transparent

Underneath he sees a small child
An infant waiting to be born
Still attached to the earth beneath
By an umbilical cord

From out of His mouth
He pulls out a dangerous-looking double-edged sword
And stabs it into the tomb

To be continued…

Reflection

I feel…

• Vulnerable
• Unguarded
• Seen
• Threatened
• Anticipatory

Scripture

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

Isaiah 11:3