BLESS YOU FOR YOUR KIND AND DISCERNING COMMENTS.
I try to bridge between what I feel constrained to do as me in the roles God has me . . . and be as hearable etc. as I can be as well. It’s a tricky dance many times.
Many times, my role and all that entails from my perspective and discernment takes utter precedence.
It’s not that I’m unmindful of other sensibilities, it’s that I have a different priority and mandate. And I try to be faithful to HIM on such scores.
He made me as I am.
He trained me as He did.
He conditioned me as He did.
He has insisted that it is for HIS PLEASURE and that His opinion is all that matters. I try to keep that in mind . . . and even manage that imperfectly. By His grace, I’m making progress on that score, however.
I sometimes get a chuckle . . . THANKFULLY, He has not YET asked me to lay on one side naked for a year etc.
He has, however, made a significant part of my message to others—me—personhood—and more or less all that entails in a given expression. I don’t always understand all of that. I’m sometimes more aware of it after the fact. However, it is fascinating and I have to marvel at HIs incredible skill in using even the likes of me.