yesterday, my friend julie pekkala took me to the charles penzone spa in dublin ohio. while she had her hair colored and styled, i had a 90 minutes body “polish” and deep oil massage. steve had bought me a gift certificate for my birthday and i finally was getting the chance to use it. for 30 minutes, the therapist exfoliated my entire body with apricot seed cream. she explained the process enabled the skin to accept the healing and moisturizing properties of the lavender-infused oil. lying there totally relaxed, all i could think of was the powerful spiritual allegory...how great my need for spiritual exfoliation to enable God to work His healing power in my life.
an excerpt from my journal -
i am in the process of personality exfoliation.
just when i think i know who i am, i discover another layer that needs sloughed off.
at times, i feel raw from the grit, thinking perhaps i’ve gone too deep.
and then there are times when i feel invigorated, liberated from dead layers of false selves.
i have made a hundred wrong turns to get to this clearing...but here i am now, free from deception, bravely facing and pressing on this arduous path toward the destination of
truth.
it seems the closer i get to me, the deeper i become connected with my creator. ridding myself of the false suits leaves me real and vulnerable before God. without the pretense and self-protection, i am free to truly know God and be known by Him and others.
but i still have a ways to go and crud yet to strip...and i write and paint and take photographs
along the way.
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