breathe

one of the most amazing things about our God is His wisdom - His knowledge that we would need places to go that allow us to breathe - places that are big enough for our spirits to expand and to stretch. there is something about being dwarfed by the land around you that is somehow reassuring to your soul... that the God who created those majestic peaks is so much bigger than even they... some people say that the vastness of the wilderness makes them feel insignificant. i didn't feel that way at all - i felt free.

everything about me is big but me. there's a whole lot of personality, a whole lot of brokenness, a whole lot of dreams and love and desire in there, and i rarely find a place where it is safe, welcomed even, to allow all of me to come out. i've somehow bought into the lie that i am too much. too bold, too passionate, too serious, too self-focused, too intense, too wounded, too scarred, too broken, too whatever - and i renounced that lie in the presence of God. i am not too much - you are not too much - we are the image-bearers of God.