I would do a lovely introduction, but that would be beating around the bush and I've been doing that for far too long.
Do you ever have those days where you're just 'out of it'?
I've had several months like this.
I've never been drunk, so I'm not entirely sure what its like, but I'm guessing how I've felt is a bit like that. Everything is kind of real, but oh so very much not! You can hear and see and smell and know and think, but you can't really respond. Because you can't really feel.
Most of my friends know this already and they have been the most supportive Sisters in Christ a girl could ever wish for! They have prayed for me, comforted me, guided me, spoken Godly words of encouragement over me, and (most importantly of all) loved me!
Despite this, I haven't really had a truly emotional response to something in a very long while. It's just been a sort of sensational numbness.
And I've known what it is all along.
This is what its like to be distant from God. This is what its like to feel shame, and guilt, and hatred, and judgement, and loneliness, and fear, and self-consciousness, and worthlessness, and lies, and evil, and darkness and God-lessness. And I hate it.
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| 'Just because you're present doesn't mean that you're here' ~ Switchfoot |
I have become a shadow of myself. I'm the same shape as me but I'm hollow and empty. You and I may recognize me, but we can't know me. Not this me. This me is so absent from the me that God sees me as and the me that God is calling me to be that it hurts. It aches. Its tearing me apart. Its dangerous to know this me.
God is forgiving. If I want to feel absolution, then I have to seek God.
God is peace. If I want to feel contentment, then I have to seek God.
God is comfort. If I want to feel companionship, then I have to seek God.
God is beauty. If I want to feel worth loving, then I have to seek God.
God is truth. If I want to feel reality, then I have to seek God.
God is love. If I want to feel emotions, then I have to seek God.
God is my identity. If I want to find myself, then I have to seek God.
And I have been absent from myself for a long while.
A message to me: With His strength I will find my way back to you...
WOW. So moving! And I hate that you feel this way, but I'm so glad you're putting God first and realise that He's the only way :) I know how you feel, feeling distant from God is the WORST thing...but you don't even realise that's what it is until a long time has passed...and then it all comes back to God! Praise Jesus! :D lots of love Xx
ReplyDeleteWow Eve, despite feeling like this you have communicated in the most extraordinarily beautiful way!!!! Thanks for sharing. And it totally sucks that you still feel like this, but it's so great that you've recognised what it is now. You've got the key.......it's Jesus :-). TONNES of love and prayers, I was praying for you about this on Monday funnily enough ;-). x x x
ReplyDeletePrayers and love and yes!
ReplyDeletePrayers and love from me. 'seek and you shall find' xxx
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