5.8.23 - Psalm 63:3
Where do you see in your life that efforts are dying, that something is fizzling out? What if you didn’t need to figure out more programs, more stuff, more answers? What if you need a breath of love?
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
Between my work that periodically interfaces with juvenile justice facilities and my own parenting quandaries, I’ve been pondering recently what an easy habit it is to use disconnection and isolation as a punishment.
We kick people out of groups, we cancel them, we threaten them with the loneliness of withholding ourselves.
It’s an effective form of control, but it isn’t a form of healing.
Love is like LIFE. I can certainly think of times when I need to step away to self-regulate or when I am unsafe.
But there are so many opportunities to choose to turn into people, to give each other access to life.
How might you find more connection to God’s love as life? How might you claim some space to invite people into connection today?
-- Theo Isoz
Reframe is built around the idea that our habits can change, and in turn change us.
One of the hardest yet most effective ways to shape a new habit is to share it with someone.