Batter My Heart, Oh God! Let's look at someone in the Bible who lived with an open heart towards God to see if God battered it.

Either God catches us like a fish with a hook (enticing and wooing) or He hunts us like game (force to break, overthrow, imprison).

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Batter my heart three-personed God, for I'm lost unless You ravage me! You must quell my passions and bend me—yes, even bruise me. I will be yours!

Shame skews our vision of reality but the Spirit of God can walk us out of it. The process is to receive His mind and thoughts about ALL things.

There is a shame that comes from trying to be like God without God. We become ashamed, and rightly so, when we attempt to be like God, without God.

Christ says, the kingdom belongs to these. So does this mean if I am an adult am I disqualified? It is obvious that there is a meaning deeper than just small children.

Though most of us fight the transitory nature of our relationships, it remains our living reality. So what does God say about all the lonely people?

Living is about relationship with Him. And the way He accomplishes this is to reduce us down, down to dependence on Him, a moment-by-moment involvement.

In deep relational building there's a dance in our relationships that can all day long be seen as a courting, even in brotherhood. A Bromance.

In the past I have looked at relationships as if my God was miserly. I felt the need to extract from them as much as I could as quick as I could, because surely the Hand of God was about to remove them.

I am not lifting up shame, triggers or dysfunction as a virtue in themselves and certainly not holy, but do our triggers and dysfunction have no purpose? Not so much!