"Seek God to find Him, & find God to keep searching for God forever."

“Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. 

When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. 

I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.” 

- Brennan Manning

The last time I blogged, I was out of my boat, riding some scary and wild waves of trust and I had finally reached the great heights of exhilarating freedom. Now, here I am a few months later, still free-falling in the wake of a newfound understanding of Grace. I wake up every day looking up to majestic mountains out my bedroom window, praising God for who He is and who I am. My view of God continues to grow every day and with it, my own identity continues to be strengthened by Him and Him alone. Through my experiences here in Colorado, I have realized the simple truth of crying the Gospel with your life and communicating it through relationships. Each day I experience a deeper understanding of His love for me and everything in the world seems to point me back to it as I see it with fresh eyes.

Christianity is not a burden, it is not a legalistic set of rules, it is not a moral structure, you have nothing to prove; it is a real and severely intimate love affair with the only One who matters. 

Jesus Christ comes to us in our complete brokenness, in our insecurities, in our false sense of self-righteousness, and calls us his own. In Deuteronomy 4:24, God is described as a "consuming fire"... How many of us are only willing to draw close enough to this fire to be warmed and comforted, but not willing to be consumed by it and completely created new? I can honestly say I am often afraid to surrender everything to God. It is a scary thing to let go of control, but boy, oh boy, is it good. 

As Brennan Manning says, "I dare you to trust that (God) loves you just as you are, not as you should be. Because you are never going to be as you should be."

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart." Proverbs 21:12

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