Intimacy and the Iron Door
“God dwells within me.” Liz Gilbert, Eat Love Pray So many of us have cast-iron doors over our hearts. A massive attack by nuclear bombs couldn’t begin to blast open the doors that so vigilantly guard who we really are. Yup. For Many years now those doors have done a stealth job of keeping everyone out—including us. I’m just beginning to realize that most all of my life I, too, have been standing on the outside of the mega-iron doors that I built, placed and sealed over my heart. This is why I haven’t really known me, and this is also why other people haven’t really known me or been able to warm-up to me—including God. When I say God, I don’t mean that I have kept God out by having these big iron doors over my heart. No, quite the contrary. God dwells within me and within all of us. In reality, when I sealed those iron doors over my heart, I not only sealed myself out, but I sealed God inside. For many years now, I have been standing outside of my heart and...