The Inner Life

Take a moment and look at your hands and notice your fingerprints.  This is just one of many ways we are each a unique masterpiece made by God.  Though it is true that God has no needs, it is clear in scripture that God wants, desires to grow “old” with each of us.  

We were crafted and made with such individual attention as if we’re the only person who would ever be born.  In our inner life we continue to “become” the people God already see us as: A unique child of God loved into being to share and leave our own “mark” on the world in a way that serves the Kingdom of God.  

Take another moment to close your eyes. After a five seconds, open them.  We can choose to see with the eyes of faith, to open ourselves up to love.  It is also true, however, that we can choose to close our eyes to the truth of who we are. 

God has always been the person reaching out to us and by our own initiative of reaching back towards God through honest and authentic prayer, we may ask God to open our eyes to things that we ourselves lack the will or ability to see.  Likewise, we can ask to rest in God, to close our eyes in a restful surrender to God.  With courage and trust we can even pray for the grace to see ourselves and the world the way God does. 

The Life Within You Letters

Hey mom there’s not much new happening with me – just some little things, like I have this cool pattern on my fingers and toes and I can open and close my eyes. I just keep growing bigger and stronger. I like moving and I notice things I haven’t noticed before - like I hear you talking and I feel your hand on your belly. Do you notice me mom? I think you do – when I get those weird hiccups I feel you trying to soothe me by running your hands over me. Your little eggplant. 

  • How have you typically experienced God “moving within” you?

      

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