Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Hearing, then healing, broken hearts
• By laying down my life
• For my enemies
• As Christ does for me

Yahweh Approach Memo

Continued from Curtained

I am… stretched.

I have entered the chasm
Of empty chaos
That divides the city
And my heart

With my two arms and two legs
I grasp the two sides
And try to pull them closer together

They resist
And seem to drift further apart

I cry out in agony

I look to My Father.

He says:

“Relax”

I am afraid
The tension will tear me apart

He says

“Let go”

Before I have time to think
How deep the chasm is
Or what might happen to the city
If it keeps getting wider

I let go.

I don’t fall
I expand
Multiplying in volume
If not in mass

I become like a marshmallow
Filling up the chasm
Fearing I will push the two sides
Away from me
Away from each other

But I stick

Then I feel an emptiness
In the pit of my stomach

As life is drawn out of me
Through my umbilical cord
By my own Father!

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Misshapen
• Stuck
• Emplaced
• Hollowed out
• Connecting
• Expansive

Scripture

“For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. “I am the Lord,” he says, “and there is no other. I publicly proclaim bold promises. I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭45‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭NLT‬‬