In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

Every gift doesn’t come in the perfect package, is not the end result of a passionate presentation. There are some GIFTS received opposite preference that changes life and love for the better. It does not feel or look like it but life and love is gifting us with what we need to appreciate the blessing of what’s coming. Surrender is not perfectly packaged nor is it a passionate presentation, but it is an awesome gift.

Life and love often gifts us with broken hearts, relationships and friendships. We suffer betrayals, never was right, can’t get it right fiascos. People, things appear to be one way and we come to learn it’s actuality something or someone all together different. Mother’s and father’s never grow up or out of their own limitations, siblings remain distant, self centered and families compete and steal eachother’s thunder. Flawed humanity taints the perfection of love and life with its selfishness…needing and requiring everything to cater to its wants and desires…instead of just letting life and love be, occur organically. Not being manipulated, controlled or living and loving to fulfill the fluctuations of human need is not packaged pretty nor is it a passionate gift given but it is indeed life and loves gift to the discerning. Life and love isn’t always packaged in our preference. It’s presented in God’s will.

Surrendering to “God you choose and provide what life and love will be for me” can be, almost always is, an arduous process. Most times our mouth articulates it long before our heart accepts it. Our humanity wrestles with reality. It grapples with actuality. There are some words we may never hear…somehow we have to stop needing that “I’m sorry, I apoligize, or I was wrong”. We have to decide we no longer need what the wisdom of God did not find necessary for our growth and development…success and maturation. We don’t need their attention, admiration or acceptance…money, gifts or detrimental influence. We don’t need their input, support and version of I love you. Be it our biological father/mother, father/mother figure, friends or love interests our preference cannot be the determining factor of beneficial, blessing or better.

People cannot give us what they themselves are deficient in. Nor should they be held captive to our desire, expectation or fantasy/preference. Maturity accepts and finds peace with that. Ultimately their choice opposite us is their right. Our preference isn’t make believe, is it? We want authentic sentiments, gestures and exchanges for sure. Right? Maybe realizing persons unable to love and accept themselves find it impossible to love differently… cannot love us as the Word ascribes. Truth be told, that’s not even their mandate or focus. It is ours. It’s not pretty, our preference but life and love turns out best when we agree with God and accept somethings we think we need are not a part of His plan, purpose and promise for our life and love. Proper perspective brings rays of sunshine to the gloom of cloudy days. It’s the reason we are able to dance when it’s pouring down rain. Deciding we no longer need “whatever” has us discouraged, downcast, or depressed is the gift of a life and love lived in “thy will be done”…”work the will to do what Pleases YOU in me”.

Thank you Jesus for every person, relationship we thought we needed that you didn’t allow…deem necessary or needful. Those you put a end to and never allowed to be. You do all things well…it was ugly, it hurt to not have or know if what we thought it would be was possible with them but we accept the gift of no, not him or her…times up…not yet…and even the gift of no never.

Prayer: All knowing, wise, and perfect Father grant us the strength to accept what you have not allowed to be. Help us surrender completely and authentically to your perfect will for our life and love. Bless us to live and love in agreement to your Word, will and way. Align our will with yours and grant us ease in this area of surrender. You are right and we are wrong to desire, request and even insist that we need what you have not provided or purposed for both our life and love. All we need is what you desire, design, and designate. We SURRENDER to your LORDSHIP as you desire be it on to us In JESUS name Amen…We agree~AntTBri