To mature we need to live life with all of its ups and downs with Christ who strengthens us!

 What makes this journey (process) messy or confusing or derailing is this: it is not easy to trust a place of not knowing.

A place of uncertainty.
A place without closure.
A place of risk and discomfort.
("I do so want to be my authentic self, but can we get on with it!!")
Perhaps we could all benefit from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's reminder, "To live is to be slooowly born."

Prayer for our week...
Riverbank
“I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another
just as I have loved you.”
—John 13.34
Look at the river.
It has no water of its own.
It receives from upstream,
and passes on what it receives.
You are not the spring,
but the riverbank.
You don't have to have love,
you only have to pass it on.
Imagine loving as you have been loved,
rivering through your heart.
The only means to fuller love
is to receive more fully.
Steve Garnaas-Holmes