Transformation from Dragon 2010

It is a year of change!! God has been transforming the inside of my temple for 40 years now and has done amazingly gentle work with patient hands...as I look back I KNOW that without those things I would not have survived the often times excruciatingly painful process. I praise Him for bringing me through in safety...He is my safe haven!! This new year He has pinpointed the outside of my temple. All my life I have used this outside as a protector and my journey with Jesus has brought me to the place were I don't need that protection anymore...all I need is Him. He has been my Protector all along, but, because of my life issues I didn't feel comfortable/safe without the fluff. SO, though I have shed this outer layer a few different times in the past this time is different, I am different. Have you read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?? I feel like I am Eustice as the Dragon...his heart is changed...he is different, but, his outside still is a dragon. He has done some work to peal it away (just as I have), but, not much progress happens...he is still a dragon!! It takes Aslan's deep, painful clawing to transform Eustice into the great boy he has become. I will try my best to journal here my transformation from Dragon to the safe woman I have become. To God be the glory, great things He has done!!