The culture of the church in the western world hasn’t given us many tools with which to think about our souls, much less how to tend to them. Odd, when you think about it, given the soul’s place in Scripture and how frequently it factors into the divine conversations the Bible invites us into. For example, Deut. 4:9 tells us, “Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently…”
If we are to learn how to tend to our inner life, we must go to the life-giver to learn how to care for our life-center. It matters greatly that we do so and here are two reasons why.
First: if our soul is well-tended, then no matter our lot we will be able to say, “It is well with my soul.” And second: the physical and public side of the human universe cannot sustain our existence, even though our consumer-driven, celebrity-worship culture insists otherwise.
Tending to Our Inner Life
It Is Well With My Soul
January 15, 2017 • Graeme Sellers
Spinning Plates
June 11, 2017 • David Hammerslag
Our lives can become a frantic rushing from spinning plate to spinning plate. We give each enough attention to prevent a disastrous crash, then we rush off to the next plate that is in danger of falling. We make our lives more and more frantic, hoping that with this one last plate spinning in its place, we’ll be happy and satisfied. Do you ever feel like a plate spinner? We think if we can just manage to keep all the plates spinning -- make sure none of them come crashing down -- then we will be happy and contented. Yet, even when we do manage it, usually for only a very short while, we end up feeling exhausted and unfulfilled. Soon some of the plates will start to slow down and wobble, demanding our attention again. The plates become our masters. We become imprisoned by the need to keep the plates spinning. They command our attention. There's a better way. And Jesus shows it to us.
Hope and Dreams
May 7, 2017 • Graeme Sellers
What happens in a time of drought is that as hope declines, dreams contract. They get smaller and smaller and smaller until we only allow ourselves to dream things we believe are doable But when hope takes up residence in us, then hope is a dream factory. Hope is coming upon us, hope that fuels transformation and releases dreams. Even in a time of drought, Father is inviting us to dream again!
