You Were Created to Fly, My Friend.

[an excerpt from one of my favorite books, The Shack, and the inspiration for my bird tattoo]




Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around.
You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.
Living unloved is like clipping a birds wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something God wants for you.
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
When three spoke themselves into human existence as the Son of God, they be became fully human. They also chose to embrace all the limitations that this entailed. Even though they have always been present in this created universe, they now became flesh and blood. It would be like a bird, whose nature is to fly, choosing only to walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.
Although by nature he is fully God, Jesus is fully human and lives as such. While never loosing the innate ability to fly, he CHOOSES moment-by-moment God with us, or God with you, to be more precise.

This proves that Jesus is truly human.


God can fly, but humans cant. Jesus is fully human. Although he is also fully God, he has NEVER drawn upon his nature as God to do anything. He has only lived out of his relationship with God, living in the very same manner that God desire to be in relationship with every human being. He is just the first to do it the uttermost, the first to absolutely trust God's life within him, the first to believe in God's love and goodness without regard for appearance or consequence.
So when he healed the blind, He did so as a dependent, limited human being trusting in God's life and power to be at work within him and through him. Jesus, as a human being, had no power within himself to heal anyone.
So, when you look at Jesus and it appears the hes flying, he really is flying. But what you are actually seeing is God; God's life in him. That's how he lives and acts as a true human, how every human is designed to live out of God's life.


A birds not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly.


Remember this, humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that God has for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in God's image.



 [end excerpt]

I strive to be truly human.