The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
The Word That Wasn’t “Ma” or “Pa”
My mom jokes that my first word was not “Ma” or “Pa” but “Whhhyyyy?” I have always loved insight.
Returning this week from a retreat that turned things around, I realized something I did not want to: insight has been the easy part. Integration is the part I need to do more of — I do some, but not enough to match the volume of insight God has given me.
What I Mean by Integration
Insight is the moment you see. Integration is what happens in the days after. Scripture is unsparing: Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. The deception is the quiet swap of I saw it for I am living it.
How to Sit In an Insight So It Sticks
What I am learning — and what I commend to you — is to sit in an insight before chasing the next:
- Name the insight in one sentence, by hand, the day it lands.
- Stay with it a full week before adding another.
- Tell one safe person what is changing. Integration needs witnesses.
Exchange
If you really believed God’s love is the love that is patient enough to wait while one insight becomes the way you actually walk — how would that change what you are feeling about the insights piling up unintegrated, and what you are believing about God, yourself, and the pace He is setting for your growth?
An unintegrated insight is just a souvenir.
“An unintegrated insight is just a souvenir.”
— The Daily CHEW™
This is where God moves His love from head to heart — by slowing us down long enough to live what we have already seen. May you sit in the next one He gives you long enough for it to become how you walk.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
What is one insight God has already given you that He is asking you to integrate before He gives you a new one?
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