Brace for impact!! God is taking my heart for one heck of a water slide. I’ll be screaming all the way. In the drops, in the twists, in the pitch black parts when I can’t see what’s ahead, in the adventure, in the bravery, and in the splashes.
Something powerful awoken in me at training camp. I felt this weight at the bottom of my heart one night while praying. Where have I felt this before??, I asked myself. After scanning every possible life memory, I finally recognized WHO it was. Let me attempt to describe the feeling. It’s the way my heart felt when I knew pain was coming. Like when I’m going into a break up or when my family or friends are about to share terrible news. I do this thing where I’d physically put my hands over my heart to brace it. I always thought of it as a bad feeling. But I now realize that ALL THIS TIME it’s the Spirit bracing my heart for impact. He hugs me tight, steadfast, and says I got you. My Holy Airbag!
More than just being there for me in the rough times, He’s teaching me to live vicariously through the Spirit this year. He’s already blowing my mind and my heart y’all! If I’m being honest, His unpredictable and spontaneous ways scares me a bit. I’m sure the water slides will punch me in my gut, and l’ll feel helpless in the free fall, but I will learn to embrace it. I’ll be brave even when it scares me to my core. I’ll keep my eyes on You even when it’s pitch black. And I’ll love even when I don’t see the results.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control… Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit ~Galatians 5:22-25
