Human "Be"ing

"When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth.
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones." -"Fix You" by Coldplay (watch this on YouTube)

"The Light came into the darkness and the darkness didn't understand it (didn't have a compartment for it!)" - John 1:5

"There was the true Light, which coming into the world, enlightens every man." - John 1:9

"In Him was life and the life was the light of men." - John 1:4

"While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke and then He went away and hid himself - John 12:46

"You are the light of the world" - Jesus

"My yoke is easy...my burden is light" - Jesus


Can I believe that God values and loves me just "as I am"? We carry shame. We carry wounds. We carry lies. We carry broken images of God. We carry light. Wounded healers. What does it look like to let light into tough places in my life/heart? Many of us have become masters of hiding. Sometimes we hide behind smiles. Sometimes we hide in work. Sometimes we hide in religious activity. Sometimes we hide in substance abuse. Sometimes we hide in unhealthy relationships. Some avenues of hiding are socially "frowned upon". Other avenues are applauded. All of it, at the core, is rooted in a belief that "I'm not lovable or acceptable as I am. God certainly wouldn't."


I don't know what en"lightening" for you could/would look like. I don't know how you're week has been. I don't know what you're thinking, believing, feeling, wishing, hoping right at this moment. I DO know that you are loved.....just....as....you.....are. Past the hiding and the tools that we use to hide...past the shame that put us in hiding in the first place...past the wounds that brought the shame...loved...accepted...worthy...valued...right there. In that place. "As I am". I pray that you embrace that idea as it's always embraced you. I pray that you are thinking about, encouraged on, or remembering with joy the healing journey. More than anything, I pray that in the depths of you...in this moment...you know...that you really, really matter. You aren't an accident. You aren't stupid. You aren't worthless. You matter...more than you and I can know right now. You're loved...just as you be. It's in that place that light takes on a "whole" new meaning and that "being" light becomes more and more intriguing as the house of my life lights up. Shalom!