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God imagined or as He is?

I live the perfect life when I fully embrace each moment as I fully embrace Triune as he is, not as I imagine him or want him to be.
When I've imagined him to be anything other than who he says he is I've created a concept that has an appearance of the divine with no substance. My feeble heart gravitates to the concept which will always be an image within my heart's comfort zone. I then worship a feeble construct devoid of love, power, and life. This construct draws life from me as I submit to it's shadow life.
Live the shadow life long enough and each moment becomes dire and fraught with worry. God's voice seems silenced as the construct has no voice but the one I've imagined. Each moment becomes mired in the wet clay of my own imaginations. To embrace each moment would be to move deeper into the mire.
Even in the most dire of circumstances there is still the image of the One I carry. There is a plumbline of hope that, once looked at, will expose the construct for what it is. Like John Milton's "house of cards" it looks stable but is easily toppled by outside forces.
Each day that I embrace Triune fully, each moment I embrace fully, is a moment by moment day of intimately knowing perfection.
This embrace is reciprocated by Triune back into me... There is no true embrace without reciprocation. Only true embraces go into us not just happen upon us.
I go into this moment embraced. I move into this day- embraced. Limitless perfection has reciprocated and bestowed unsurpassable love and worth into who I fully am. I experience the best of surprises each time because Triune is not as I imagined, he us not a construct of mine. Triune is not like anything I could imagine!
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