Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Logging out of my eye
• So I can inspect / de-speck
• My brother

“She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭12‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from 6/26 IAM: Adrift

I am… an optometrist.

Swapping lenses for my patients
To help Them see clearly

Yet
I myself
Cannot see

I have memorized the eye chart
(Or so I tell myself)
So I can judge whether They
Are seeing correctly

They are
Starting to wonder
If something is off

I am
Starting to wonder
How long I can keep this up

I look for Jesus.

He is very blurry
But I can see His hand
In front of my face

I can’t count the fingers
But I can reach out
To take hold of Jesus

He takes my hand
He takes me away
From my work

And suddenly

I see clearly.

It wasn’t my eyes
But the air
That was blurred

Or maybe
I was underwater
Trapped in a watery womb
Waiting to be born
Into the light

Then I realize
To my horror
That I had misjudged Them

There may well be
Something wrong with Their eyes
But I can’t tell what

Because I was judging them
By my own distorted standards
That I myself couldn’t satisfy

I look at Jesus.

I see Him clearly
I see myself
As He sees me

In all my folly
And all my glory

And suddenly
I see Them
The same way

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Disoriented
• Revisioned
• Fraudulent
• Led
• Emerging

Scripture

“I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the God who saves you. I gave up Egypt, Ethiopia, and the region of Seba in exchange for you.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭43‬:‭3‬ ‭CEV‬‬