Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Dropping my stone of offense (again?)
• By releasing ungrieved trauma
• So I can clearly see
• What others need from me
• And Christ
• In order to do better

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from De-Veiled

I am… puddled.

Holding tension with Jesus
Turned my stony form to clay
Then mud

I have been reduced to two eyes
Floating in dirty water

I gave back the map
I’d been chasing all my life

It was the only thing
That gave me purpose
And justified
(At least to myself)
All the horrible things I did

Now what?

I look for Jesus.

All I can do
Is roll my eyes upward

But He is there
Looking down at me

In fact
I can tell
He sees Himself
Perfectly reflected in me

Except
With my eyes
And the mud
Fouling the water

Is the main reason
I don’t look like Jesus
That I don’t see like Jesus?

Is the main reason
I don’t look like Jesus
That I don’t see like Jesus?

Jesus looks to His Father.

He cries out
In a loud voice

Father forgive him
He doesn’t know
What he is doing

For a long moment
Nothing happens

Then a pillar of fire
Falls on Jesus
And me

And I evaporate!

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Useless
• Worthless
• Drained
• Seen
• Heard
• Understood
• Emptied out

Scripture

“Look up to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth below. For the skies will disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My righteous rule will never end!”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭51‬:‭6‬ ‭NLT‬‬