Moment of Crash |
The relationship of my limbs and body is critical. Correct arm positioning eases entry during the penetrating, enduring "Moment of Crash" into the lake. It is like cracking into very thin ice. This out-of-my-comfort zone paradigm-shift and perspective-altering event need not be painfully body-slapping. After all, I am not a masochist. It is a rewarding free-fall that includes close relationships, and it impacts us all.
My response to Larry Crabb's Step #3 PURGE is like this jump-&-crash experience. It is scary, yet refreshing and exhilarating. Crashing through denial and justification to view my relational sins is down-right unnatural. To acknowledge that fear causes me to hide and protect myself. It helps to release an invigorating people-purpose realm that is still uncertain how I should properly navigate.
This past 2-month series of blogs I have shared my reactions to the first three PAPA steps... to hopefully enhance and tickle taste buds. Crabb explains The PAPA Prayer format in much better detail than I. After all, he created it. In the next blog, I plan to briefly overview the four steps and address The PAPA Prayer's final step, APPROACH. (Please refer to "Warnings & Alerts" at the very bottom of this blog).
... B-fore I B-fire, I B-peace... embracing God's "Hiding Place" ...in repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength... Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (Isaiah 30:15&18)
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