Soul Care Sunday

 Surprise...I'm back.  Hi.  I missed you.  I missed this.

Guys, I have been doing all the things.  The kids are home for summer break and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to continue to work from home.  However, their being present 24/7 is a change from a very quiet norm.  It's a juggling act some moments, and a lot of deep breaths, but again, when I say I'm truly grateful, I mean it.

Finding the time to write means that I have so many swirling ideas at any given time and then narrowing it down to a pocket of time that I find between this and that is tough.  But when the time presents itself, I sit, I write. And I know you've had a lot going on too, so thank you for taking the time to connect with me here.

Let's settle in for just a moment.

Relax your shoulders and your jaw.  Take a deep breath.

I am fascinated by the concept of "awareness".  I love to search for articles and videos about people's experiences with the afterlife.  If you have never watched a "Coming Home" video on youtube about a person's Near Death Experience or "NDE", I promise, it will captivate you. It's wild.  If you know me, you know I have a deep love and faith in Jesus.  That hasn't changed at all, I am still very much in love with Him and I see Him as my Savior and my Lord.  However, what has grown is my awareness of the here and now.  Something very spiritual happens inside me when I am awakening to this moment, this breath.

Life is short.  Life is also so very fragile.  And I'm convinced that we live veiled.  By what?  I'm not sure and even if I was sure, I think I'd have an incredibly difficult time trying to describe it.  But this life is temporary and fleeting and what I believe, is just a minuscule fraction of who we truly are.

Coming into summer here shortly I let myself slip up and allowed those icky thoughts of comparison to creep in when I would pass a mirror.  It's truly a daily practice where I have to stop, look again, and say the word, "thank you" to myself.  Since doing this, I can tell you, my gratitude for my body has increased as well as the awareness that my body is just that, it's just a body, and though I'm grateful for it and I will try to do better to be nice to it, and do what I can to take care of it, it will not go with me into eternity.

So I wanted you to have this to keep, to put away when you are feeling down about yourself and the way that you look.  And know that this practice is to give care to your soul, to embrace what is for just this moment.  Are you ready?

    Imagine yourself being able to go from this life now to the afterlife as simple as walking through a door.  But before you open the door to the other side, you have a full knowing that everything you have here in the physical will not follow you. You have the time to say your final goodbyes, and specifically, you are given the chance to talk to just your body.  What would you say?  

I would love to hear some of your thoughts so if you'd like to connect with me and chat you can do so here:

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