Pregnant With Promise

There is a colleague that I have known for many years, but this year our spirits really connected. I left work today dancing on air, and I felt like what it must have been like when a pregnant Mary went to visit her pregnant cousin Elizabeth. When the two met, the babies leaped, and Lord knows, my spirit was leaping! Today my friend said something that gave me pause. We often talk about brokenness and where we are in becoming whole. At one point my friend said, “Most people don’t want to stay broken. It’s just often too hard to confront whatever issue it was that broke them.” Saying that statement is deep doesn’t do it justice. She is so correct in how many of us view dealing with our brokenness—not wanting to confront the root problem. I was sharing with her how much freer I feel this year now that I am writing and sharing this spiritual journey to emotional and spiritual health and well-being. I forgot to tell her that just last night I jokingly asked God if I could leave some things out, and you, Dear Readers, already know the answer. The answer was an emphatic NO! For me writing daily is very cathartic and therapeutic. Many times when I sit down to write, I may have one line at best. By the time that I get to the end my baby (my spirit) is leaping! When I reflect on the topics I’ve covered in just three months, I can see that I’ve only scratched the surface. There is so much more to this. But this is what really encouraged me today—being able to talk to another believer who is just as committed to this journey to wholeness as I am. Mary and Elizabeth met for a reason. My friend and I talk almost daily for a reason. We all need that one person to speak life into our lives and to coach us in this birthing process. Then we need to pay it and pray it forward. We are all pregnant with promise, but when the pressure of delivery comes we can get woefully discouraged. That’s when we need to be reminded of the promise that is yet to come. Confronting our issues is tough but necessary. Going through the process and doing the work allows us to be in a better position to birth a promise we cannot even imagine. “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’” (1 Corinthians 2:9)