What is holding you up?

For the past 3 months, Hank and I have been working through the Sonship study as part of our preparation for working with World Harvest Mission.  So far we have spent considerable time and energy working to chip away at all the defective foundations we use to hold ourselves up.  We are climbing under the pier of our appearance, finding that in so many areas we have been using rotting wood (faulty delusions and ego-boosting comparisons) as supports instead of the massive columns of granite we thought were there.  It is exhausting work.

What if we don't do this now?  What if we give it all a quick once-over and call it good enough?  We might be able to cruise a while longer, propping up with an extra accomplishment here and appearance of having it all together there.  But what about when the heavy stuff comes?  I mean the really heavy stuff of life, that will find us whether or not we move our family into the territory of hippos and crocs?

So we are chipping away, dragging out the driftwood and hauling our stubborn selves back onto something substantial.  What can hold us up?  

Here is our verse to memorize this week (paraphrased by an over-tired woman who should be in bed instead of writing because her throng of children won't take pity on her tomorrow morning despite the fact that it is Saturday):

May the God of all expectations, ambition, and reverie fill you with all jubilance, refreshment, wonder, and contentment of your soul as you depend on him, so that you may bubble over with hopeful anticipation by the energy and sinew of his Spirit!

PRAY this for us!

(You can find that in Romans 15:13 if you are wondering.)

 What is holding you up?

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