Intimacy–It is all around us, around me.  I haven’t noticed until now just how of life has intimacy built into it.  I do intimately care about each person who reads this blog because they are finding healing.  I care for each person who has read my book (God’s and mine) and found hope in it for themselves as well as light for next steps towards a more fulfilling life.  I hadn’t looked at any of these aspects as being part of intimacy until now.  Jesus Christ is extremely intimate with us as we continue to draw closer and closer to Him.  I want to continue this journey with Him and complete as much of the intimate work as I can.

Our pastor’s sermon yesterday was about us being grafted into God’s Kingdom through Jesus Christ.  He didn’t graft us in as grandkids, distant relatives, but as sons and daughters.  This makes us direct recipients of the inheritance God has prepared for us.  Talk about intimate detail!

Intimacy seems to be a critical part of all aspects of our nature from mind, emotions and body.  It was safe for me to work with my mind all of my life.  No one could see what was in it and damage it with their criticism.  I struggled to do too much with my emotions because I can’t do anything with my emotions without being noticed.  My view of my emotions was severely damaged from what I thought was dad’s view of me.  Little did I know that people all around me were noticing this part of me anyway.  I was the one who had the blinded eye to it.  My body was damaged goods from all the sexual abuse so I would keep eyes off of it with the work I did from the good thinking I’d do.  I am really waking up to the denial I’ve lived in so much of my life.  I’m also ready to be fully awake to letting my body, mind and emotions work as a team.  I don’t know how this will be, but I believe it will be much like it has been, I’ll just be awake to it now.

Thanks for taking this little journey through intimacy with me the last couple days.  I’ve needed to embrace it as a critical part of life (me).