Ego

Ego
Everyone has one.
Some are completely unaware of it.
Others are ultra sensitive to it.
Most of us are in-between.

For the majority of us still in the first half of life (as Richard Rohr might say) we are busy doing a lot of ego work. Building our business, raising our children, leading in our community, decorating our homes. We are busy doing the image work of our lives. We're moved by Pinterest and Instagram. We are developing a brand. We are making a Name.
Our concern is still so closely tied to our image. Our ego is hard at work.

This is not a negative thing, it's more of just what it is. Honestly, it's a lot to do with how we are hardwired. The first half of life has work to do in order to figure out...
Who I am...
Why I'm here...
Where am I going!?

These are questions we have to answer. Some will even spend their entire life answering them.
But what does it mean for us to begin to enter the second half of life?
What might it mean to finally move beyond the image work, the identity questions, to actually living? ... To be present in the naked now and recieve all that you've already been given?

In a culture that drives us to canstantly consume... to own the language of Taking...
Recieiving may be the most simple thing you'll ever do and yet perhaps the most difficult.

When you have become totally comfortable in your own skin...
When you wake up ready to recieve, not take...
When you breathe, eat, work, play, rest out of true gratitude...

You are entering the second half of life.

When your daily practice has more to do with your ego passing away than it does with growing larger... you will be closer to Life, and so closer to Christ.

Out of all the
accomplishments
Goals
Spreadsheets
Jobs
Tasks
Diaper Changes
Deadlines
Exhaustion
you may be faced with today,

May you take a step out, so that you may breifly look in, and begin to Recieve all that which you so believe you have to take.

You are already Loved.
Life is already yours.