door into lighthouse

Insights are not always rosy aha moments are they? Sometimes new awareness is like a kick in the gut, especially when it has to do with ourselves. Who really wants to acknowledge places where the paint has been scraped off by predictable and unpredictable weathering?

The most deeply felt insights seem to dovetail with vulnerability, when you're at your lowest most naked ebb. I think this is why prayer can be so profound. Though not always, there are times when one can surrender to this feeling of vulnerability, and find the confidence to allow for the insights to lead to personal growth and learning. Then, we begin to see the nicks and life tattoos in a manner with which we can accept them.....that perhaps it's better to allow your authenticity and accumulated experiences show rather than a freshly painted facade.


Does it take courage to open the door to insight? Maybe. Courage to listen to the wise whispers found within the silence between the words of a prayer perhaps is the key to getting to a point when we have no more amour to defend the facade.....when you throw your hands in the air and say to yourself.............what do I have to lose? Help me figure it out.


Vulnerability as a means to insight......unlocks the incentive to ask the "whys" and "how comes" and all of those questions we often want to avoid. It is vulnerability which opens our ears and hearts to listening to the Consoler, the Holy Spirit. It is vulnerability which allows us to know we have someone pretty darn special walking with us.

Insights may be a kick in the gut sometimes, but they are a path that can lead us to honest reflections........ or to bed with our head under the pillow.