LIFE 2.0 – Principles of Growth

Verse:
A desire fulfilled is satisfying to the soul.

So often we struggle to with awareness of our needs and even if we know what our need is, many of us struggle with the permission to have them to begin with. Shame creeps in from years of the our going unmet. What a tragedy, for they were and are part of the goodness of our wonderful design. God put needs in us that we might find joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment. In a fallen world this often goes arry and our needs go unmet. This doesn’t negate the original need. Whatever our interpretation of an unmet need, in a fallen world, usually ends up with us feeling less valuable. Going back to our unadulterated needs then becomes a way of getting back in touch with what is alive in us, without any judgement or shame. Quite the contrary, let us celebrate what makes us human, what brings us to life!

Standing up to challenge these old familiar toxic believes is the very thing that brings life in love into your soul

Law or love?
Good / bad
Right / wrong

Unmet needs, or neglect, as children can be very damaging to our healthy growth. The messages we entertain can set us up for believing our needs are the reason we are in pain, which leads us to judge our needs as bad.  We end up in a double bind if we were suffered emotional neglect in our formative years.

Getting back to needs is our only hope in experiencing what scripture talks about, “a need fulfilled is satisfying to the soul.”

Because now you will be operating in the most natural language of the heart:  feelings and needs.  “A need fulfilled is satisfying to the soul.”
…”meeting the need of the moment…”

NCV

Or as Marshall R says, “don’t do anything that isn’t play.”