Are you there God?
Dear God,
I understand clearly that I may be a lot of work. I get that I have failed myself behind closed doors, but is it true that I can’t fail you, I can only fail myself? With the following thoughts of disappointment and the disheartening sadness of the lies I would tell myself as I placed on the mask to step out and into the world of judgement and criticism filled with many more who may too have disappointed themselves in their yesterdays and the earlier hours of their today. I can see how you must either laugh (and/or) have compassion for us.
Are you cheering us on? And are we to become a cheerleader like you?
Today, open not just my heart but the hearts of those that occupy space in this world. Open our eyes to see the impact of our little white lies that become big as we play out the act of a story we call life. Sometimes, with a knowing and with many big breaths and take fives before we get it right. Pretending takes work and we are so good at pretending that we start to believe it as long as we are occupied. But God, I don’t want to fail at simply being me, hidden at home, or out in the world exposed.
Open our eyes to see that if we would softly breathe when the doors close that we know that we are safe to be honestly loving and kind to ourselves. Not destructive and unkind with those words and those thoughts. Give me the strength and the courage to stop failing and living in disappointment behind closed doors, allow me to be the best version of me when no one is looking.
I ask of you God, to guide us with grace through moments of rehearsal of being kind to ourselves. So that when we do open the doors to our sacred space that those who are of the same love, kindness, who are not masked and are loyal to truth, graces the spaces beyond our doors.
Fill our homes, our hearts, and our minds with such love that we will leave the same behind. Beyond those doors, guide me to always see that you didn’t ask me to succeed at being me for anyone else but me!
God, bring into our lives those who align to the mission of living, not fearing the truth, and a passion for loyalty. Bring those who can help me grow without giving me more reasons to want to give up and shrink to the floor when I close that door.
God, help me to clarify the not so pretty stuff that I allowed into the purity of my virtues because I thought that my lies were truth when I just could not see my very own truths were more than enough.
God, teach and inspire me to live authentic to my soul's desire to live with pure intention to always speak truth with love to myself and those I love. God, I ask that we can all live not just in a beautiful space behind closed doors but that we can be beautiful and kind to ourselves to compliment the spaces that we occupy!
Amen
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Much love,
God and Corrie