Over four Saturdays you named a pattern, a mask, and a decision you keep reopening. You saw each one on its own.
This is where you see them together. It takes about ten minutes, and there is no one to perform for. Only you, and what is true.
Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. — 1 Corinthians 13:12
Here is what you have been carrying. Not four separate things. One thing, wearing three faces, growing from a single root.
Read it again. That belief at the bottom is not a fact about you. It is the oldest thing in the room, and everything above it has been growing from it for years.
You can see it now. That is the work of these four Saturdays, and most people never get this far. But seeing the root is not the same as pulling it.
Seeing happens in an hour. Pulling takes longer, and it is not done alone. That is the deeper work, and it is what comes next.
What you wrote here is yours. Come back to it in the quiet moments this week. And when you are ready to pull the root and not just see it, you will know where to go.
You are not finished.
You are not forgotten.
You are not disqualified.
You are being prepared.
P.Sol
Twenty-six years pastoral ministry.
Living unmasked.