Monday, January 28, 2019

Yom Kippur -Atonement & Repentance 9/18/18-9/19/18

What do I want to repent for?

What can I let go of?

What am I still hanging on to?

My vices:  Keeping unhealthy options at arms length; needing to be loved; Avoiding rejection at high costs; Impulsiveness; self indulgence (in love, food, sex, and chaos)

I don't feel like my faults fit in here.  I'm a work in progress.  I'm here for selfish reasons.  I know what other have done to me.  But God's called me to address what I have done.  I'm not ready to just change it all tonight.  I need time and space to figure it all out- and it's messy.  I need to figure out why I do these things, which requires me to talk honestly and it means I'm not always going to sound all put together.  & I'll try not to express my fleeting thoughts with too much emphasis, but sometimes those feeling thoughts feel very REAL in the moment.  They feel permanent and intense.  So here I am, heart bleeding, and too ugly for anyone to be uncomfortable with here.

Every day feels different.

I wanted to leave, feeling like I'm too big for this small group.  But I'm trying to humble myself down and trust the process that God put me right where I need to be.  So there must be value in being myself in this right now.  I'm taking a leap of faith & trusting you to help me process and improve.

I still live in fear, which causes me to be unable to live in righteousness.

I must guard myself and not allow weakness to show, because that's when I get attacked.  (Having back up plans, to have anger, to make excuses, to avoid guilt of my wrongs, because the pain is too much to bare)

When I wonder why God lets these things happen to me, I keep getting met with "God never wastes a hurt".  Why did it have to be THIS hurt?  Couldn't I have been a good enough person without having this happen to me?
"God never left you"  He was THERE?  Right THEN?  Why didn't he stop it?

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