prayer

Good morning…

In the early morning darkness, I quietly unravel more. My soul skips back to that verb from yesterday’s post. “Unravel” piques my interest, so I google her definition on Dictionary.com to disentangle her many facets.

clear up
resolve
disclose
explain
sort out
unriddle

To separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
To free from complication or difficulty; make plain or clear; solve (to unravel a situation; to unravel a mystery).
To take apart; undo; destroy (a plan, agreement, or arrangement).

For me, these verbs define the spiritual discipline of my early morning prayer time. I pray onto a blank journal page all that needs to be resolved, sorted out, unriddled around my soul. Then I craft an uncovered thought into our blog post and I press “send,” sharing with you a living seed of our loving LORD, morning by morning.

I tried to transfer a seed of thought to you at about 2:00 am, but my tired computer’s wheel spun out of control, again. Sensing we both needed a rest, I put my computer to sleep and I crawled back into sleep myself until 7:38 am. As I slept, more thoughts unraveled. My false self, my old, self-protective habits are like a ball of yarn tightly bound, round and round. The powerful, invisible, unraveling Force at play is the Spirit of our living God. The True Self in my soul is just one fractal of the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27), one living seed of the risen Christ (2 Tim. 2:7-9).

“These ideas were a great puzzle for me,” writes Sue Monk Kidd on page 53-54 of When The Heart Waits. “How did they weave together with Scripture? One night, as I sat up late reading the Epistles, I saw more clearly how Christianity teaches that we have a True Self – a ‘mind of Christ’ (1 Cor. 2:16), an indwelling Christ (Col. 1:27, Phil. 1:21, Rom. 8:9-10), and inner Christ-self the is unformed and unfinished (Eph. 4:13, 15). As I read Galatians 2:20 – ‘It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me’ – I wondered, Could this be the sacred process of becoming a true individual and discovering the ground of 1 A.M. in one’s own soul?”

Yet we do speak wisdom among those spiritually mature [believers who have teachable hearts and a greater understanding]; but [it is a higher] wisdom not [the wisdom] of this present age nor of the rulers and leaders of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom once hidden [from man, but now revealed to us by God, that wisdom] which God predestined before the ages to our glory [to lift us into the glory of His presence] (1 Cor. 2:6-7, AMP).

…Sue…