Pursue Wholeness

Hello 2022!

Ideally, I should say sorry for not writing as much as I used to.

But the truth is, to be sorry, for me, will be to be sorry for the season I currently find myself in and the experiences I am having. I am happy for what is going on because I know the lessons are worth every bit of it and the lessons are for you, my dear reader, as well.

So why am I here today? 

It is because I learnt something which I want to share with you before I go to bed (it already is 2:15am 😂). Before I doze off behind this computer, let me just go straight to it. It won't take long, I hope, i.e. if Holy Spirit does not change the mood 😅 (… what is wrong with me and these side comments though?!)

So yesterday, technically two days ago,  I got my COVID shot. Hello Pfizer! 
Now like most vaccines, I couldn't move my arm. It hurt badly.
Although I can lift my arm now, the shot spot is still sore...

Anyway, with my aching arm, I had to take a bath.  

I observed a two things in the shower:

1. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not lift my left arm to scrub my right side. 

2. My right arm, on the other hand, could scrub my left arm and side without difficulty.

The Holy Spirit taught me this...

As members of Christ's Body, it is important we realize that we were created to be interdependent. Look at your own physical body. Do you see that just as your eye cannot rub itself when it itches so can your nose not scratch itself when it itches?

As it is for our physical bodies, so it is for our spiritual unit as the Body of Christ. 
Discerning the Lord's Body is realizing that we cannot function on our own, dependent on ourselves. We will not be successful. 

The first lesson is this: We are not islands and our core mandate is to serve one another in love. I didn't have to petition my right arm to wash my left arm and side. It was the default action of my right arm to step up and cover for the other arm because in that moment, it was incapacitated. Hello Holy Spirit!
So what's the take-home? Cover each other's backs and don't make a show of it. We are one Body and at the end of the day, the goal is to see the unit and not the individual parts. Really, that is what you see. I mean, when you look at me, you don't see just my head even if I have the longest forehead in the world 😅. The truth is, you see my body. Anaa meboa?*

The second thing I learnt today is that, yes, there will be times when I may be down because of one issue or the other but it will be selfish for me to stay down. Understanding our oneness means understanding that just as I have been served today, a time may come when someone else will be in need of help and I may be the only lifeline present within the given moment. 

So what do I do? 
Pursue wholeness. Regardless what may have put you down, remember there is life to be lived and there are others counting and depending on you to survive so they know it is possible. 

This is not the typical cliché of "this is speaking to me as well" because it really IS speaking to me as well. 

How do we get there? 
We get there by a resolve to pursue wholeness. By making up your mind to heal from every brokenness, emotional hurt or trauma, physical or sexual abuse, childhood trauma, everything. 
It starts with making the resolve. 

But if you are like me, and find it hard to put your "fighter/game" face on to achieve the results you want or need, you start by asking Holy Spirit for help. 
… and God knows how much I have been asking Him for help every day... 

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Anaa meboa - "Am I lying?" in twi, a Ghanaian local language