In whom I am well pleased…

1.9.23

Here we go. My first blog post for this platform. It seems right to begin on the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord.

Our Lord’s Baptism is the initiating event that makes the identity of Christ—passion, death, and resurrection, a soluble reality in which our baptismal immersion will dissolve our very life transforming into His own.

We are a broken humanity, whose cracks and fragments cried out from the parched exile of Original sin’s desert, needing total submersion in the saving restorative waters of the Divine Life.

I am pleased to begin my account of His love here, a day that represents birth. A place to begin my growth—on my Lord’s Baptism Day.

I don’t know what these days will bring. I am embarking on the last year of my schooling. For context sake, I was called by my own need for healing into this degree. A man named Joseph, a retired pro-bono teacher-counselor, a spry timeless charm of a soul living in 90+ year old frame, with unconditional tenderness and compassion said I had the gift of love in my eyes. This affirmation was to set the course for me to explore my call to the healing profession.

It has been a journey these past few years.

“Who in their right mind would take on a Masters in the middle of a global pandemic?” I asked myself. Yet, it was the best choice to help me rid myself of distraction and concretize my disciplines. I was worn and torn from the rigor of recovery principles, but still struggled with the practice of my surrender. I do my best with God’s grace to accept my humanness, limitations, and the mercy unending God has for a sinner like me.

I am ready to finish this portion of the race, to move toward a greater freedom and acceptance of myself—as one of the children my Sovereign King adores and cherishes.

He has chosen me. He is pleased with me.

This keeps me going and I hope you know this promise is here for you as well.

He, who is the loving Jesus with arms-wide like a patient secure Father waist-deep in a river, awaits your uninhibited, child-like reckless abandon to plunge full-bodied into the waters of His grace.

I am excited to let Him catch me throughout the journey ahead, my God who takes delight in me.