Is Spiritual abuse a sophisticated emotional abuse. Do some churches make us feel obligated to do do do do. How often do we push against our true selves and ignore our true passions to serve someones agenda. "YOU SHOULD DO THIS" - "YOU SHOULD DO THAT". All the while giving our time away and stealing opportunities for unique creativity. In the words of Thomas Merton "They try to draw everyone else into activities as senseless and as devouring as their own. They are great promoters of useless work. They love to organise meetings and banquets and conferences and lectures. They print circulars, write letters, talk for hours on the telephone in order that they may gather a hundred together in a large room where they will all fill the air with smoke and make a great deal of noise and roar at one another and clap their hands and stagger home at last patting on another on the back with the assurance they have all done great things to spread the kingdom of God."
You were in God’s imagination before you were ever born. All the talent, gifting, and creativity you possess was placed in you by God Himself. God has placed things within you that are unique and he delights when you express this creativity. We crave lives full of passion. Is it possible all we have to do is what we are passionate about and God will bless us in it.
