*Abba

“Present your honest heart in lament, in worship, in prayer, in confession, in repentance, in vulnerability to (Abba) God gives the soul the gift of communion with (Abba) God — what every human being was made for.

After pining after the heart of (Abba) God, peering into the heart of (Abba) God, personalizing the heart of (Abba) God, the act of fully presenting your whole heart to (Abba) God through worship music, through vulnerably journaling, through honest prayer journaling, praying Scripture back to (Abba) God — this transforms the present moment.

Unless we are wholly present to (Abba) God with all of ourselves — our lament, our worship, our hopes, our confessions, our heartbreak — we can’t receive the present of wholeness.

Unless we genuinely present all of ourselves to (Abba) God, we won’t experience (Abba) God genuinely present to us.

The only way to intimacy is through the door of vulnerability.