The Characters of God

My spot, my pop as a Christmas Missionary, as an Animal Ambassador, and as a connoisseur of Comfort & Yoga got me thinking about God, God as one God yet three characters.

The Father is The Love. The Son, Jesus, is The Wonderful. The Spirit is The Comforter. And I think these three characters that are actually names of God provide us with a root in the impossible, in the realm of cozy hope, and in the outrageous and no matter what hug of love.

I see The Wonderful described in stories like Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, where fairies and flying and talking animals and miracles are completely normal!

I see The Comforter in offering cozy refreshment in the form of blankets, of comfort food, of warmth, of watching movies together on the couch.

I see The Love in the form of my husband and his compassion towards all his children, furry and human, and his welcoming new children of all ages into his fatherhood.

I find examples here. I try and keep walls down and my heart tender despite inevitable sensitivity and pain. I try and reach out where I can. I try and stay willing because willingness is the place where the magic sparks into life!

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Welcoming!

The bustle verses the stillness!?!? Sometimes in the body stillness, the mind is busy. It makes me feel manic because not moving my body when my mind is spinning feels futile.

I think what I need to learn is living in the moment. What is my next right thing this moment? And I really mean moment literally, as in 60 seconds. Takes so much pressure off, doesn't it?

Yesterday, I had a cleaning project that I was going to start at 12:15. But then my husband started telling me a story in his deliberate, descriptive, never in a hurry way. I knew I was supposed to hear him. Yet I anxiously kept looking at the clock.

I have started a daily journal, chronicling my life through the jolly lenses of Mrs. Claus. She is the character I most relate to. I have kind of coined myself "The Christmas Missionary" because I love sharing Jesus as a Gentle Baby who grew up to be the most Welcoming Man in history!

I read this quote by Thornton Wilder today, "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

My husband is my treasure, mounds of riches greater than the dust of any cleaning project. God's creatures were hand crafted, one of a kind, by His extraordinary creativity. In the moment is where I want to be, with souls who need loving on, who need to feel welcome.

And I am definitely not the poster child of welcoming. I fight daily to tear down walls of protection I have built to keep others out. But my heart returns to this space of openness. And He who lives in me coaxes me into bravery every minute!

Found here: https://appliedfaith.org/2015/07/07/
he-said-why-are-christians-such-hateful-hypocrites/