Anti-Manipulative
Lent 2023 | Day 31 | Tuesday, March 28
Week No. 05
I let go of my desire for safety and security.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I welcome everything that comes to me today
because I know it is for my healing.I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions.
I let go of my desire for power and control.
I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure.
I let go of my desire for survival and security.
I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person or myself.
I open to the love and presence of God and God’s action within.
Amen.
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Text in bold is this week’s focus.
Quote Of The Day
it is gracious and compassionate,
like monday morning at rainbow ridge,
when tree wrapped her arms around me
the way we did when we were kids,
laid her head against my chest,
gave me language:
helped me sing
hallelujah
again.
I knew then that love is not coercive,
but listen — when it hits:
it is useless to resist.
it is beauty that draws us in.
it is belief that lets us go.
it is god that relentlessly gifts himself
as irresistibly anti-manipulative.
there is no better answer than “yes”
to the invitation that life is.
i’m not looking for splints.
i want resurrection.
it’s time to bury the seed.
breathe in: all of it.- Levi The Poet
Song Of The Day
Prompt Of The Day
How do you feel about God? What was your first introduction to God like? Was it gentle? Was it coercive? If Love is never manipulative, what does the explanation that “God is Love” say about the one that you have?
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