January 13, 2025
I noticed the other day the intense feeling that
I suddenly got throughout my body when I was having a conversation with
someone. That sense of flight or fight was real. My reaction to it was to
protect – and that looked like judgment, anger, hiding, superiority, etc. But
the situation didn’t warrant my reaction. What was really going on?
When we are confronted with a situation that triggers
us, our immediate reaction is often fight or flight or freeze. It can feel like
a crack has opened in our lives that is dark. Yet if we stay in that darkness,
we are unable to see what is really going on in us. We have to let the dark
crack be filled by light as we stabilize our bodies and get our minds quiet,
giving some breathing room for what is really going on in us. Then we will be
able to see what we are gripping onto, what we are trying to control or hide
from, and let properly put those things where they belong – out of our hands.
Our listening portion today is from the bible, 2
Timothy 1:7
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity
(cowardice, fear), but a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.”
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