2nd Quarter Volume 12
As I thought about bouncing back, Father dropped into my heart the idea of a basketball. Growing up I enjoyed playing basketball and I always kept my ball fully inflated so that it would have the best bounce for dribbling, shooting, and passing. But when the ball began to leak, it would quickly lose its bounce making it difficult to use. The image of the basketball showed me how much our heart and our life, is like that ball. When we are full of Father’s Love (air in the ball), we can function at our maximum level as His sons and daughters. However, when our capacity to receive and experience His love is diminished, it becomes more difficult for us to live as His true children. In that state, we can easily be overwhelmed by negative emotions and feelings or the memory of painful and traumatic events.
