“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
When was the last time you risked being vulnerable? Experienced being open? Don’t wait to heal.
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You
I love that about our God! He created a world that He engages in that is cyclical, moving in the rhythms of birth, growth, death, resurrection. As we enter the fall season I am reminded of the ways in which we each experience death seasons. Times when life seems to be stalling, or stagnant. Hidden behind a blanket of soul frost. Yet, as nature points us we know that the seed that is entrusted in the hands of the Father is never wasted. It may be dormant, but it is in process. Do you ever feel that way? Dormant…but in process?
This season of soul care sessions have been amazing in the freedom and the expression that people are finding in what has been to them only frozen ground. If you are experiencing a time of seeming fruitlessness…breathe. Steady your anxiousness and remember, their is promise in the hiddenness and beauty in the waiting.
Ecclesiastes 3 : There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—
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Gen 2:7 And God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Mat 16:26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mat 4:8 -9 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
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