My friend saw the beauty buried inside
of me. She knew that such life wasn't something be talked about, but abundance to be lived. She didn't just discuss me like a painting under review, she led me remove the protective tarp and release my beauty into reality.
The conversation was on style. She gave me hours of her priceless advice on finding a new level of beauty. Between her words and my life was my tarp of complacency. Her words were true, but my motivation to move had to come from me alone. Turns out, it was much more about reviving me at the heart level than it was restoring me to style. Abundant life v. abundant laziness. Status quo v. brave beauty. Beauty is a choice before it's a display. I was convicted, not chastised, and called to reveal me. Let the ordinary fall and fullness thrive.
The conversation was on style. She gave me hours of her priceless advice on finding a new level of beauty. Between her words and my life was my tarp of complacency. Her words were true, but my motivation to move had to come from me alone. Turns out, it was much more about reviving me at the heart level than it was restoring me to style. Abundant life v. abundant laziness. Status quo v. brave beauty. Beauty is a choice before it's a display. I was convicted, not chastised, and called to reveal me. Let the ordinary fall and fullness thrive.
She said:
“I spent hours of my time – investing in you, being specific
with you as to exactly what you needed to do and say and all of that investment
returned void because you didn’t follow what was said. You can give excuse
after excuse – but essentially, you chose to fall back into status quo instead
of moving forward in the steps required to rise. I feel that the conversation
was a waste because you didn’t want success enough to sacrifice forward. Again,
the result was mediocre when a move was offered. You are the one who lives with
the result. Choose more….”
He said:
“I give you everything, most of all, MYSELF. All wisdom, all
worth, all words. More than enough to illuminate you and move you into the most
amazing you that I have desired and created you to be. Yet, you choose not to
be with me. You determine my words to be “advice,” as if I were a simply a
behavioral counselor that gives you guidance in your own decisions actions to
make your life “better.” When you choose not to obey My voice, you close off the
mind renewing and life transforming words that literally raise who are you to eradicate
status quo and live life to the absolutely fullest. What steals your desperation
for Me? What keeps My life from flowing in you? Do you hear and pass or seek
and find? Listen to Me. Let me release you to live passionately in My
love and fully in My life!"
In time, the desire and beauty emerged. But not
without a cost. With a beautiful friend, there was a day of “out with the old and in with the new.” There
was a trashing of old threads and collecting new clothes. With Yeshua, there was a day of
laying down distractions and rising to time in His Presence. It’s a start –
every day another start. There is still a cost, still a struggle,
still a choice, still a beauty and still a life.
This is the day. Choose life.
Enjoy Him, Michelle
mlpack777@gmail.com
