(This is not about being perfect. It’s about the quiet moments.)

Are you safe with yourself? Can you be left alone… and feel peaceful? Can you work through confusing, emotional moments? Or have you developed an escape habit?

The Escape Habit

An escape habit has two parts.

First—you escape. In a quiet moment…No one around. Just you with you—And you feel the urgent need to escape.

Second—you’ve practiced it a long time. Now it’s automatic. It feels urgent. In quiet, restless moments…you run to the old habit.

The Result: If you have an escape habit, you can’t fully trust yourself. Because your habit owns the moment. Isn’t it odd— to be in control of your life…and in quiet moments not trust yourself?

What would it feel like to trust yourself again? It would feel like: peace… rest… joy.

The Path Back

You will have to reclaim quiet moments. You will have to relearn rest—and become creative again. You will have to choose: God’s presence over stress and confusion.

Why It Started

You likely stopped trusting yourself when your environment wasn’t safe. Escape made sense then.

But now? Your environment is different. The habit just stayed.

Close:

To trust yourself again is to learn that you have power in your environment. You are not powerless. You can sit in quiet. You can enjoy your thoughts. You can enjoy God.

And slowly—you begin to release your grip on the escape habit.

Prayer:

Father, I was born innocent and trusting. Fear changed me. Help me to be wise in my quiet, alone moments. Teach me to enjoy Your presence. Amen.

Scripture:

“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”

(Especially in the quiet, alone moments.)    2 Tim. 1:7 (NIV)