I've been thinking about this "showing up" thing some more... about this whole idea of being fully present. What does that look like? How do we become fully present? Jeremy got me thinking down these lines with his comment.
Being fully present is a big thing... an important thing. And since it is so big and important maybe I should think about it more. Maybe I should try and figure out what it looks like. How do we become fully present?
Well, the first thing that seemed to come to mind about being fully present is about taking off the masks. After all, how can we be present anywhere if we are hiding behind something?
I guess it's about being real. And being real is a scary thing. We become vulnerable. We become raw. It's risky. That's why it's so much easier to keep the mask on.
I think church people are good at wearing masks. Church is a good place to come for masks.
Which is really messed up, because church should be the one place where you can go to and feel safe about taking off the mask and being real. Church should be a place where real people come and share their real struggles and their real victories... without feeling threatened, judged, or looked down on. Church, of all places, should be a mask free zone.
Anyway, back to being present. It just seems to me that taking off our mask is the first step in being fully present.
2 comments:
hope your knee is okay. I have several mask ineed to take a look at but the church is so um unforgiving when someone does take a mask off no wonder people dont..... hmm ill think about it at work tomorrow :) see ya sunday
i was meaning THE CHURCH not the naz .... but yeh just wanted to make that clear i was not beating on the naz
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