Unshackled Moments ~ February 13, 2018 ~ Carrying The Wilderness With Us

One of the aspects of discipleship and recovery is to seek to improve our conscious contact with Daddy, especially through prayer and meditation, seeking His will for us and the power to carry it out. Conscious contact is essential, because if we forget or lose sight of the truth that Daddy is with us and loves us, then we may falter when times get hard. The truth is that He is with us. He cares for us, and no matter how it may feel at times, we are never alone.

I like to think of conscious contact as an awareness of His presence and His love. Do you have specials times and or places where this awareness is easier to feel than others? I do, as I suspect that most of us in relationship with our Creator do. Mine may be different than yours. And that's OK. Some people may find a special connection with the Creator in His creation, perhaps sitting outside listening to the birds and feeling the breeze.  But others may find that experience miserable and distracting, The birds are annoying, and, oh wait, that's not  a bird....it's a mosquito. It's a good idea to find those places and times that work for you, where you can lose yourself in your time and relationship with Him. Time in the awareness of His presence and love refreshes and strengthens us.

But let us not lose sight of the truth that He is always with us. We need to be careful not to fall into thinking that we can only have conscious contact in that way,  in that place and in that time. As much as those special times and places can be important to our relationship and recovery, after all, even Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness to spend time alone with Daddy, we should ask for the grace to have awareness of Him with us in those times and places that are the opposite of our special times. As close as Jesus was to Daddy alone in the wilderness, there is no doubt that He knew Daddy was with Him in the midst of the multitudes with all the need and reproach surrounding Him. We can cultivate an awareness of His love and provision and presence in the midst of the chaos, stress and distractions of our every day existence. It may start in our own version of the wilderness, but when we take that into the chaos it is such a blessing and even more of a help. As wonderful as it is to be able to connect with God when it's just the two of you, how much more amazing is it to be able to take those wilderness moments with us to the places and times when we need them most and where it is harder to remember?

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