How Wonderful Could It All Be, Really?
One of my favorite songs EVER, is Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
I can never hear it, but what my heart doesn’t beat faster, and I feel my nervous system uncoiling itself into joy.
Truly, this world is a wonderful world. My life is a wonderful, wonderful life. And all of it begs the question:
How wonderful could it be….really?
If my life equals the sum total of my thoughts about it, if my feelings about this life are equal to my opinion of God’s goodness towards me, how wonderful might it all become if I changed my mind?
How wonderful could my experience of my life be if:
I stop letting other people determine how far I believe I can go…
if I stop trying to fix myself, as though something is broken…
if I stop wishing for past events to be different…
if I stop thinking that my body is anything less than the miraculous marvelous home of a beautiful eternal soul?
How wonderful are we allowing God to be to us? What if we women could re-wild ourselves from rules to the riches of grace? What might our day be like, moving from martyrdom to true service, out of well meaning religion and into a well being that flows like rivers of living waters from our still-expectant bellies?
How wonderful, how abundant, is it all meant to be?
How wonderful does God want your marriage to be? How wonderful does He want your creative expression to feel? How wonderfully impactful could your small business be?
I’ve come to a place where I am convinced that my original design is far better than what “wellness” as a modern-day industry can ever offer me. My original design is beyond “body positivity” - it is more than simply loving myself even if I was overweight or unhealthy. My original design might include, but in its full expression is actually better than anything any book or functional medicine guru can teach me.
My life lived at the right hand of God, seated in heavenly places, hidden away in Christ, puts me out of reach of diet dogmas, extreme protocols, and even “food freedom”. Divine life is life at a whole, other level - a level in which my life force doesn’t have to be dissipated by chasing what most women chase.
When I am able to receive the life of God into my whole being, including my body, the profound good news of it lets my nervous system “un-grip” itself. Parts of me get to come out of hiding and into full acceptance.
Placing myself in integrated alignment with the goodness of God directly impacts my whole experience of life: my creativity, my abundance, my spirituality, my physicality, every last part gets to come into favor.
Unearned, and undeserved favor.
“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14: 17)
This kingdom I am living in really is not about “food and drink”. It isn’t about wellness rules, religious rules, mental health rules, social media rules, or your unspoken rules pertaining to me. This kingdom has zero to do with cultural expectations. Rather, this kingdom really is about righteousness (being made as I ought always to have been, given to me as sheer gift) peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
{ ::voice lowers to a conspiratorial whisper:: “Hey queen. What would it look like for you to reign in life, not rein-in your life?”}
How wonderful could it all be….really?
