We All Have Patterns...Bring them!
We have patterns. Patterns we would like to hide, unacknowledged, cover up, mask. Patterns in relationships, patterns in our emotions, patterns in our self-governing, in our thoughts. In my own life I am beginning to see them as the sin that they are. They are the things that make me snap when I am busy. The things that make me judge, blame in my closest relationships. They are the words I don’t say that conceal resentment and invite it to nest in my heart. They are the anxiousness that floods right under the paper-thin surface of my outside presentation, that push me to distract and power-through unattended. “Every broken place that has not been healed and transformed in God’s presence is a hard edge of our personality that slices and dices other people when they bump up against it” (Barton, 2010) This revealing of patterns, the calling out of that which is just so “not working” in our lives, is in good timing. We are on the threshold of Lent. Ruth Haley Bart