When you feel this kind of connection, you can shift out of fight-or-flight survival mode and bring the thinking part of your brain (prefrontal lobe) online. This allows you to engage empathy and make wiser choices. Feeling safe enables you to walk in the self-sacrificial way of Jesus. When you experience God’s delight, no longer can you close your eyes to the Divine delights in others. You can see a Divine Parent who lavishes love over creation and whose heart breaks to see suffering of beloved children. As Brennan Manning wrote, “If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot
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