Living for vs with vs in God

Does this quote map your spiritual journey? 

It does for me!

FOR⁠
Born evangelical, I lived my life “for” God, as if God lived far away from me with a list of demands & commands that had to be honored.⁠

WITH⁠
As the spiritual journey deepened, I sensed God was “with me” on the journey. ⁠

There was a softening of the need to please the external God “out there.”

God became intimately with me in Spirit- partners on the path!⁠

IN
As things deepen, I now sense that this whole wild world is just one chaotic mess called God. ⁠
We live in God like fish live in the ocean.⁠

And the Ocean (God) is large enough to lovingly hold the good AND bad within it.

It is all-embracing, like the air we breathe. ⁠

We live *in* God as God lives *in* us.⁠

Like the air, we breathe- the divine is inside of us and outside of us.⁠

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