Hiding Spots

I'm here to ask you today...where are you hiding? What do you hide from? "Friends"? Family? Love? Hate? Failure? .....Yourself? I'm not trying to get all touchy feely ridiculous, I am asking a legitimate question; where are you hiding? Also, what do you hide from? We all hide, take cover in the recesses of our minds and settle in the deepest part of our hearts.

I hide, but I don't want to hide.

I am guilty sometimes of justifying myself within myself. I make excuses for why some things are ok. Then later when I have grown a little older and wiser I understand that all that justifying was for nothing but temporary disillusionment into what a good person I am. All that lying to myself, all that miscommunication...all that hardening that made my own self dis-unified. I carried my load, and still put a frilly pink table cloth over it all to make it look more aesthetically pleasing, I was proud and didn't put it down. I hid in the mess I had created for myself, started the path to my own literal destruction.

I hid, letting no one know I was really hidden.

We keep silent when we hide..we don't let them know we are hiding so we say nothing. Words can be locked doors, but they are locked doors with keyholes. So we become silent, revealing nothing, hiding. The spoken word is a very powerful thing. It breaks people, it lifts up people, it keeps people alive (in memory of course). Silence can be one way that we hide.

But here's the thing that hiding makes us forget....

Our debt of dreadful living is paid, we have no need to hide.

Jesus did it, he brought us out of hiding. Whether our minds allow us to break free is another matter, but with Christ it is easier, and possible. He beckons the sinner to come out of hiding and go to him, to find consolation, to be vulnerable yet not judged. Once the wounds of our hidden selves have healed and we become strong again, with a loving nudge he tells us that we must go and we accept the calling.

Out of hiding we find strength and consolation.

Out of hiding we find the will, the vigor to help the world become unhidden.

Out of hiding we no longer erase our footsteps..

Instead we show the paths we have traveled so that others

may understand and see our God through our lives

and that they may worship Him with theirs.

This is the promise of the One that makes the darkness flee. This is the love that brings us out of our hiding wherever it may be. I honestly didn't mean for that to rhyme..it just happened. But indeed, Jesus can spoil our best hiding spots, he can find the all the sardines who squeeze underneath the bed. But he can also show us that it's ok, that we have no need to fear being exposed, especially to him.

All to God