God is Deep and Simple; unfortunately we often try to make Him superficial and complex, with a million rules, with Him judging and being ashamed of our flaws, expecting perfection from us. We feel crushed trying to live up to His Perfection.

God’s Plan does not include airtight submarine compartments to protect ourselves from pain and shame. When we block pain and store it in a timeless Tupperware container, we create fractures in our core self, leaving an Adult Child Character. He wants to join us in our airtight compartments, supporting our opening up by drawing us toward Him, through His Loving Spirit and Guidance. God’s Plan is integrated and freely given. It allows us to feel good about noticing unwanted things as the first step in making healthy changes. He wants to live with us, through us, and for us. We provide the willingness; He provides the rest!

God’s Plan is for us to allow Him to share His Loving Grace and Guidance with us:

1. The Adventure of living consciously with Him in the present, with Grateful Humility,
2. Experiencing life through our lanterns of grace with Powerful Vulnerability,
3. Relaxing into becoming who we truly are – His ambassadors, as new creations in Christ,    as His Spirit draws us deeper and deeper into His Nature
4. Applying The Serenity Prayer imperfectly: “God grant me the serenity to change what I can change, the freedom to release to You what I can’t change, and a growing wisdom to know the difference.”

Grateful Humility is the attitude and perception that naturally comes from deeply accepting that His Loving Grace is given to each of us personally and freely. We can never earn it!

Powerful Vulnerability is the attitude and perception that it is more important to learn and grow, than to be right!

God pours His Loving Grace freely into us. The more we pour grace inside ourselves, as His ambassador, to help in the reconciliation process between our true identity in Him, and the wounded parts of ourselves, that are stuck in our old nature, and the more we pour grace outwardly to those we touch, the more room there is inside us to receive His ongoing Grace. As God’s sons and daughters, we will always have a Father who loves us perfectly and offers us His Home. We will always have a loving Big Brother who we can turn to and ask for guidance and direction. No problem is too great for us to handle through Him.

In Matthew 11:28, Jesus invites us to: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light.” In Mark 10:15, Jesus goes on to share: “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Paul encourages us to: “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” (Ephesians 5:1) Paul reminds us: “But by faith we eagerly await through His Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.” (Galatians 5:5)