Red Flags

Red Flags (& other signs everyone ignores)

Human beings are hardwired to recognize danger. We kick into “fight or flight” (or "freeze" or fawn") in response to patterns, trauma, memory, experience.

But we also have an amazing capacity to ignore signals: we’ll drive around with the “check engine” light on for months. We’ll take selfies with wildlife, walking right past the signs screaming “DANGEROUS.” To say nothing of having relationships with people about whom our gut (or our past) says, “no, No, NO.”

It doesn’t stop there. Sometimes we'll go so far as to talk ourselves out of what we (on some level) already know: “I’ll be careful,” “I know what I’m doing,” “that couldn't be what it meant.”

Scripture is full of stories of people ignoring laughably clear warnings: writing on the wall, talking donkeys, the very voice of God. Which probably means that forging ahead in spite of red flags is as core to who and how we are as anything else.

This August, we’re paying attention. Heeding warnings, breaking patterns, and stopping while we’re ahead. And we’re looking for the green flags the Holy Spirit is waving all over the place, showing the way to go

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