This was a quote from a man I had on the podcast around the topic of alignment.

"What are we pretending not to know."  There are times when we look at our lives and we can see things that are out of step with who we say that we are and what kind of life we want to have.  We can do the same with what kind of business I want to run and what kind of church do I want to lead.  We can give ourselves a pass and not hold ourselves to our ideals.

One of the tools that I use to flush out this kind of problem is this:

Let me think of my wife a year from now.  She is talking to a friend of hers and I happen to be in a place where she does not know that I can hear her.  She is saying the greatest things in the world about me.  What are those things?

What would I physically have to do to inspire that response in her?

It must be physical.  It cannot be some kind of emotion or thought.  It has to be a behavior and something that I actually do even if it's talking.

Once I am clear on it I must behave on it.

Congruence and Alignment are by many definitions the same thing.  If they are not they are extremely close.  

When we know what we should be doing and then behave in a different way we are out of alignment.  This can cause physical issues because our bodies actually respond to our hypocrisy.  We are lying to ourselves or we are lying to others but we are for sure pretending.  We are pretending to not know something.  

This may also be a sign that we have not been pursuing power from God and to have that life giving power that makes it so that we can live that life that we really want.