Life Down Under

My latest revelation

Pregnancy is an expression of the fasted lifestyle. Like unto a 9 month fast. I had a deeply encouraging conversation today with one of my dearest friends from home. We were discussing the weakness that pregnancy produces: both the weakness of body as well as the weakness of emotions. She made an interesting comment ~ that hormones have the tendency to bring to the surface what is lying dormant within. Hmmm. Sounds alot to me like fasting. Quite a scary thought, seeing as how often that which comes to the surface is sin: grumpiness and attitudes and laziness and such. I thought that the hormones were an explanation for all that, but maybe in reality that's what's been inside all along, but hiding. Ouch.

But the (encouraging) flip side of the same concept is that sometimes that which comes to the surface are emotions which need to be realized; tears which need to be cried; prayers which need to be prayed, movements of the heart which need to be lifted to God. And were it not for a bit of pressure (i.e. hormones), those emotions and prayers and tears and movements of the heart would remain hidden, quiet, and un-spoken. And herein presents the opportunity for the genuine crying out to God for help out of the place of true weakness and brokenness. The Jeremiah 33:3, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know" sort of crying out to God, which very well may not happen if it weren't for a place of weakness to draw that cry out.

I had always thought that hormones had a way of distorting reality. Which sometimes I do think definitely happens. But perhaps this happens much less of the time than I originally thought. It takes wisdom and discernment to know when to ask the Lord to silence lies and reveal truth, and when to ask the Lord for grace to deal with the truth that has been revealed.